Richard Dewhurst

Projects

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• 8 Active
• 28 Finished

Projects per year

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  FAA Testing: FAA Group - PROFICIENCY TESTING SCHEME

  McCubbin, I. (Technician) & Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  1/08/23 → 31/05/24

  Project: Commercial

  • Whole Crop Silage 100%

• Dairy Resilience: Predicting and enhancing lifetime resilience in dairy cattle

  Dewhurst, R. (PI), Mason, C. (CoI), March, M. (Researcher), Green, M. J. (PI), Bradley, A. (CoI), Forde, N. (CoI) & Shewbridge Carter, L. (Researcher)

  1/07/22 → 30/06/23

  Project: Research

  • Dairy Cattle 100%

• AANUE: Balancing amino acids to improve nitrogen use efficiency in dairy cows fed extensively fermented grass silage

  Newbold, J. (PI) & Dewhurst, R. (Project manager)

  1/05/22 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

  • Dairy Cows 100%
  • Grass Silage 100%
  • Amino Acid 100%
  • Milk Protein 100%
  • Milk Protein Yield 50%

• Sefar Farm Tour Leadership And Co-operation

  Cole, L. (PI), Robertson, D. (CoI), Dewhurst, R. (CoI) & Burgess, P. (CoI)

  The James Hutton Institute

  5/10/21 → 30/11/21

  Project: Research

• FAA RING TEST: Forage Analysis Assurance Group - Proficiency Testing Scheme

  Dewhurst, R. (PI) & Bagnall, A. (CoI)

  1/08/21 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

  • Forage Analysis 100%
  • Annuals 50%

• Dairy Sensors: Identifying best sensor technologies to deliver verifiable health and welfare, environment and processing quality benefits for Dairy Products

  Dewhurst, R. (PI), Ferguson, H. (Researcher), Haskell, M. (CoI) & Shewbridge Carter, L. (Researcher)

  1/08/20 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

  • Dairy Product 100%
  • Equipment 62%
  • Animal Welfare 41%
  • Cow 41%
  • Milk Yield 16%

• Developing analytical and advisory networks

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  Innovate UK

  1/07/20 → 30/06/23

  Project: Research

  • Milk Production 100%
  • Milk Quality 100%
  • Dairy Farming 50%
  • Safety Standard 50%
  • Diagnostic Techniques 50%

• NZL: Carbon net zero & UK livestock systems

  Rees, B. (PI), Buckingham, S. (Researcher), Dewhurst, R. (Researcher), Sykes, A. (PI) & Bell, J. (PI)

  1/05/20 → 31/08/20

  Project: Research

  • Net Zero 100%
  • Farm Animal 100%
  • Land Use 50%

• Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) Technologies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity of pasture-based cattle systems

  Dewhurst, R. (PI), Nicoll, L. (CoI), Duthie, C.-A. (CoI), Broadbent, C. (CoI), Miller, G. (CoI) & Ferguson, H. (CoI)

  UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/10/19 → 30/03/23

  Project: Research

  • Greenhouse Gas 100%
  • Precision Agriculture 100%
  • Methane 30%
  • Herd 30%
  • Grazing System 10%

• Elucidating bovine host genomic links with rumen microbial genes to improve sustainably feed conversion efficiency using unique selection criteria

  Roehe, R. (PI) & Dewhurst, R. (CoI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/05/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

  • Microbiome 100%
  • Rumen 60%
  • Microbial Gene 41%
  • Methane 36%
  • Bovine 29%

• RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-21 WP2.3 Productive and sustainable land management

  Wall, E. (PI), Smith, S. (CoI), Nicoll, L. (CoI), Parker, J. (CoI), Robertson, D. (CoI), Davidson, R. (CoI), Donbavand, J. (CoI), Anderson, C. (CoI), Roehe, R. (CoI), Harrison, B. (CoI), Purcell, L. (CoI), Duthie, C.-A. (CoI), Gunn, G. (CoI), Pritchard, T. (CoI), Jones, S. (CoI), Bagnall, A. (CoI), Vosough Ahmadi, B. (CoI), Archibald, I. (CoI), Rees, B. (CoI), Eory, V. (CoI), Glenk, K. (CoI), Edwards, T. (CoI), Buckingham, S. (CoI), March, M. (CoI), Broadbent, C. (CoI), Cloy, J. (CoI), Hargreaves, P. (CoI), Wishart, H. (CoI), Griffiths, B. (CoI), Fox, N. (CoI), Sparks, N. (CoI), Shrestha, S. (CoI), Banos, G. (CoI), Henry, M. (CoI), Watson, C. (CoI), Dickinson, J. (CoI), Topp, K. (CoI), Burnett, F. (CoI), Kyle, J. (CoI), Denholm, S. (CoI), Dewhurst, R. (CoI), Lawson, D. (CoI), McCubbin, I. (CoI), Dwyer, C. (CoI), Holland, J. (CoI), McCracken, D. (CoI), Barratt, A. (CoI), Havis, N. (CoI), Stanisz-Migal, M. (CoI), Miller, G. (CoI), Bowen, J. (CoI), Hutchings, M. (CoI), Creissen, H. (CoI), D'Eath, R. (CoI), Baddeley, J. (CoI), Houdijk, J. (CoI), Coffey, M. (CoI), Morgan-Davies, C. (CoI), Walker, R. (CoI), Turner, S. (CoI), Haskell, M. (CoI), Barnes, A. (CoI), Athanasiadou, S. (CoI), Cole, L. (CoI), Sandilands, V. (CoI), McLaren, A. (CoI), MacLeod, M. (CoI) & Smith, L. (CoI)

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • Microbiome 100%
  • Methanogenesis 100%
  • Methanogen 50%
  • Protista 33%
  • Fibrobacter 33%

• Provision of analysis to quantify non-CO2 abatement in the UK agriculture sector by 2050, with an emphasis on the potential for innovative and novel measures

  Eory, V. (PI), Rees, B. (CoI), Topp, K. (CoI), Dewhurst, R. (CoI) & Wall, E. (CoI)

  3/01/19 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Legumes Translated

  Revoredo Giha, C. (CoI), Topp, K. (CoI), Dewhurst, R. (CoI), Costa Font, M. (CoI), MacPherson, L. (CoI), Houdijk, J. (CoI), Walker, R. (CoI), Hargreaves, P. (CoI), Lawson, D. (CoI), Newbold, J. (CoI) & Watson, C. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/11/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

  • Arable Land 100%
  • Cropping System 97%
  • Pollinator 85%
  • Europe 85%
  • Nitrous Oxide 57%

• Follow up development of nutrition modelling and farm rationing software

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  1/08/18 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

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

  Dewhurst, R. (PI) & Miller, G. (CoI)

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/03/18 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

  • Microbial Proteins 100%
  • Protein Synthesis 100%
  • Rumen 100%
  • Feeds 92%
  • Beef Cattle 92%

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

  Duthie, C.-A. (CoI), Ramsay, N. (CoI), Dwyer, C. (CoI), Ferguson, H. (CoI), Haskell, M. (CoI), Dickinson, J. (CoI), McCubbin, I. (CoI) & Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/02/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

  • Meta-Analysis 100%
  • Feed Efficiency 60%
  • Feeds 60%
  • Feed Conversion 50%
  • Europeans 50%

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

  Dewhurst, R. (PI), Ramsay, N. (Project manager), March, M. (CoI), Hargreaves, P. (Researcher), Ferguson, H. (Researcher) & Shewbridge Carter, L. (Researcher)

  European Commission

  1/10/17 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

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

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

• Understanding the functional and genomic architecture of the rumen microbiome affecting performance traits in bovines

  Roehe, R. (PI), Duthie, C.-A. (CoI) & Dewhurst, R. (CoI)

  1/09/16 → 31/08/19

  Project: Research

  • Microbiome 100%
  • Rumen 90%
  • Metagenome 70%
  • Beef Cattle 68%
  • Microflora 53%

• Development of an easy to use metagenomics platform for agricultural science

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/04/16 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

  • Microbial Gene 100%
  • Thermal Diffusion 100%
  • Volatile Fatty Acid 60%
  • Metagenomics 40%
  • Metabolic Pathway 40%

• TANZANIA: Investigation of farmer-led breeding goals and strategies

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  2/02/16 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

  • Breed 100%
  • Dairy Cattle 100%
  • Semen 66%
  • Sires 66%
  • Cow 66%

• Platform for African dairy genetic gain

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  1/01/16 → 31/05/19

  Project: Research

• Agri-Tech in China Network + Newton Fund

  Dewhurst, R. (PI) & Stott, A. (CoI)

  1/01/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Stress effects on the ovine rumen microbiome

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/12/15 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

• Whole farm modelling of specialist beef systems in Scotland and Ireland

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  1/10/15 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

• TANZANIA: The use of cow-side milk progesterone tests

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  1/09/15 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

• PrecisionBeef

  Ross, D. (PI), Duthie, C.-A. (PI), Hyslop, J. (CoI), Rooke, J. (CoI) & Dewhurst, R. (CoI)

  1/04/15 → 30/06/18

  Project: Research

  • Feed Intake 100%
  • Feeds 85%
  • Feeding Behavior 64%
  • Feed Efficiency 42%
  • Support Vector Machine 40%

• Improving the sustainability and competitive position of the UK beef industry through selective breeding

  Wall, E. (PI), Pritchard, T. (CoI), Dewhurst, R. (CoI), Coffey, M. (CoI) & Moran, D. (CoI)

  UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/01/15 → 30/07/19

  Project: Research

  • Feed Intake 100%
  • Farm Animal 66%
  • Feed Conversion 66%
  • Feed Efficiency 66%
  • Greenhouse Gas 66%