Scotland's Rural College

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2026

• 1 Curtailed
• 7 Not started
• 118 Active
• 233 Finished

Projects per year

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• Provision of a herbage trial to obtain Scottish data for UK National List value for cultivation and use assessments / Scottish recommended list purposes

  Lawson, D. & Shipway, P.

  Scottish Government

  1/04/14 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

• Modelling Complex Social Systems in the Context of Coastal Ecosystem Services & Resource Management

  Barnes, A.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/09/14 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• Impact of genetics and growth promoters on avian intestinal microbiota and health

  Athanasiadou, S.

  RESAS DUMMY CLIENT

  1/10/14 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

• Investigations into behavioural and neural / cellular consequences of tooth resection in commercial piglets: implications for welfare

  Sandercock, D.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

• Understanding antibiotic usage on farms - improving usage and reducing the speed of antibiotic resistance

  Milne, C.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

• Understanding satiety in broiler breeders during rearing and application to commercial diets

  D'Eath, R.

  B.B.S.R.C.

  1/10/15 → 30/08/21

  Project: Research

• Spatial land use modelling of CAP impacts

  Glenk, K.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

• Stress effects on the ovine rumen microbiome

  Dewhurst, R.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/12/15 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• Understanding the physiological and molecular basis of genetic variation in post-flowering N dynamics in Barley to improve N use efficiency

  Bingham, I.

  SRUC internal funding

  5/01/16 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

• Understanding interactions between Ramularia collo-cygni and barley leaf physiology to target improvements in host resistance and disease control strategies

  Bingham, I.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  5/01/16 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

• Inoculated disease trials: cereals and winter oilseed rape

  Havis, N., Gorniak, K., Yoxall, T., Burnett, F., Crawford, C., Laing, A., Miller, S., Irvine, S., Stanisz-Migal, M., Fortune, J., Domalazek, N. & Rzepka, A.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/07/16 → 31/07/22

  Project: Research

• The use of networks of rumen microbial genes associated with performance traits for precision breeding and nutrition in beef cattle

  Roehe, R.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 1/02/22

  Project: Research

• The effectrs of stress on the ruminal microbial environment in beef cattle and its relationship to feed efficiency and methane emissions

  Turner, S.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

• Breeding for disease resistance in sheep

  Conington, J.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• Mitigating producers' income fluctuations through collaborative supply chains in the dairy sector

  Revoredo Giha, C.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• Understanding short-term measurement techniques and proxies for methane emissions from cattle

  Dewhurst, R.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

• Soils Programme Research Partnership: Management for Soil Biology and Health

  Ball, B., Jones, S., Cloy, J., Hargreaves, P., Dussart, F., Watson, C., Parker, J., Griffiths, B. & Stanisz-Migal, M.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/01/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

• Genomic management tools to optimise resilience and efficiency GenTORE

  Wall, E., Eory, V. & Bunning, H.

  European Commission

  1/04/17 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Phenomics and genomics of behavioural and growth traits in group-housed pigs

  Turner, S., Roehe, R., Camerlink, I. & D'Eath, R.

  Michigan State University

  1/04/17 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

• Policy Relevant Projects Funding for EAEDC

  Bird, J., Jones, S. & Atterton, J.

  SFC GRANT DUMMY CLIENT

  1/04/17 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

• Working for Waders

  McCracken, D.

  23/05/17 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Soils research to deliver Greenhouse Gas Removals and Abatement Technologies (SOILS-R-GGREAT)

  MacLeod, M., Rees, B., Eory, V., Sykes, A. & Moran, D.

  NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

  20/06/17 → 19/06/21

  Project: Research

• Linking food system shocks with conflict and migration: using historical evidence to predict resilience and vulnerabilities

  Toma, L.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/07/17 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• Orphan crops: conventional breeding versus genomic selection approaches. Understanding Issues and options to support food and nutritional security in Africa

  Hoad, S. & Bancic, J.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 28/02/22

  Project: Research

• Can technological solutions deliver positive welfare benefits in housing for dairy cattle?

  Haskell, M.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• Sensitivity of ideal protein nutrition to gut health

  Houdijk, J.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• Precision breeding for piglet survival and the use of microbiome information to improve wellness in pigs

  Roehe, R.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

• Behavioural Signatures of Parasitism

  Smith, L.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 28/02/22

  Project: Research

• Can the survival of lambs from larger litters be improved?

  Dwyer, C.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• Predicting Lyme Disease risk: Improving the knowledge of Ixodes ricinus and Borrelia burgdorferi dynamics in Scotland through structured data collection and citizen science

  Cardoso Ribeiro, R. & Eze, J.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• Arthropod conservatin in agricultural landscapes : modelling farmer decision-making and biodiversity outcomes

  Barnes, A.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/09/17 → 30/08/23

  Project: Research

• The significance of plant interactions in the design of breeding programmes

  Hoad, S. & Scott, P.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research

• Unravelling the biological basis for heterosis in cereals

  Hoad, S.

  1/09/17 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• Quantifying the social, economic and environmental consequences of changes in agricultural production in a spatial perspective

  Eory, V.

  1/09/17 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• Delivering the agricultural greenhouse gas and ammonia inventories and projections

  Wall, E., Pritchard, T., Archibald, I. & Rees, B.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  4/09/17 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• Horse Welfare within Traveller/Gypsy communities: an ethnic group often under-represented in horse welfare research

  Coombs, T.

  The Horse Trust

  1/10/17 → 28/02/22

  Project: Research

• Modelling short & long-term resilience and efficiency of cattle production

  Wall, E. & Eory, V.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/10/17 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

• Dairy 4 Future - Propagating innovations for more resilient dairy farming in the Atlantic area

  Dewhurst, R., Ramsay, N., March, M., Hargreaves, P. & Ferguson, H.

  European Commission

  1/10/17 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

• Livestock's role in food system resilience in remote, upland regions

  McCracken, D., Shrestha, S., Thomson, S., Holland, J., Morgan-Davies, C., Barnes, A. & McLaren, A.

  B.B.S.R.C.

  1/11/17 → 31/10/21

  Project: Research

• CTLGH The contributions made by nutrition and genotype to resilience in poultry

  Sparks, N.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/01/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• SMARTCOW : An integrated infrastructure for increased research capability and innovation in the European cattle sector

  Dewhurst, R., Duthie, C., Ramsay, N., Dwyer, C., Ferguson, H., Flockhart, J., Haskell, M., Dickinson, J. & McCubbin, I.

  European Commission

  1/02/18 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

• Agri CIEL - Re-defining nutrition standards for improving beef production efficiency

  Dewhurst, R., Miller, G. & Bowen, J.

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/03/18 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• Oilseed Rape Genetic Improvement Network OREGIN

  Burnett, F. & Havis, N.

  1/03/18 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• Updating Nitrogen and Sulphur fertiliser recommendations for spring barley and potatoes

  Hoad, S., Sinclair, A., Bingham, I. & Crawford, C.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/03/18 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

• Database and reporting system to support Signet's Sheepbreeder and Beefbreeder Services

  Krzyzelewski, T., Moore, K., Hamper, A., Wells, A., Brand, W. & Coffey, M.

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/04/18 → 3/03/24

  Project: Research

• CTLGH Identification and selection of targets and development of analytical tools to optimize breeding programmes in African chicken populations

  Banos, G., Sparks, N. & Coffey, M.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/04/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Tailtech: developing an early warning system for pig tail biting

  D'Eath, R.

  Innovate UK (TSB QUARTERLY)

  1/04/18 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• Garnock's buzzing

  Cole, L.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Replacement of contentious inputs in organic farming systems (RELACS)

  Athanasiadou, S. & Hutchings, M.

  European Commission

  1/05/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Low-Input Farming and Territories - Integrating knowledge for improving ecosystem-based farming

  Barnes, A., Toma, L., Shrestha, S., Ferreira, J., Thompson, B., McCracken, D., Latto, D. & Spencer, M.

  European Commission

  1/05/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research