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• Cetacean Strandings 2017-2020

  Brownlow, A., ten Doeschate, M. & Davison, N.

  16/10/17 → 15/10/20

  Project: Research

  • Cetacean morbillivirus 100%
  • Fin Whale 98%
  • Morbillivirus Infections 91%
  • Bidens 87%
  • Globicephala melas 80%

• Summary of crop research

  Evans, A.

  1/11/17 → 31/07/19

  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

  • beef 100%
  • herds 55%
  • cattle 54%
  • finishing 51%
  • Scotland 51%

• Development of national genetic evaluations of beef cattle for resistance to bovine tuberculosis (bTB)

  Banos, G., Mrode, R. & Coffey, M.

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/11/17 → 31/10/20

  Project: Research

• Review of the evidence on welfare aspects of the transport of live animals

  Dwyer, C., Mitchell, M. & Kettlewell, P.

  10/11/17 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Demonstrating and promoting the potential benefits of using drone-captured imagery to farmers

  Evans, A.

  1/12/17 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Developing digital KE resources for Lyme disease prevention in Scotland

  Eze, J., Gunn, G., Auty, H., McCann, C., Baughan, J. & Cardoso Ribeiro, R.

  1/12/17 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• CTLGH Dairy Genomics

  Mrode, R.

  1/01/18 → 31/07/19

  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

• CTLGH Prioritisation of poultry phenotypes based on their economic and cultural value to farmers

  Sparks, N.

  1/01/18 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

• UK Sheep Genetic Improvement Scoping Study

  Conington, J., Banos, G., Coffey, M. & Wall, E.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Developing sustainable economic and ecological grazing systems - learning from innovative practitioners

  Cloy, J., Morgan-Davies, C., McVittie, A. & Watson, C.

  CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY(USE ACCOUNT 10151545)

  2/01/18 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• CAP Intentions Survey 2018

  Barnes, A., Thomson, S., Spencer, M. & McMillan, J.

  1/02/18 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

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

  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

  • cattle 100%
  • physiology 66%
  • infrastructure 56%
  • methodology 27%
  • ethics 27%

• Managing risk through integrated farm management, diversification strategies and education

  Barnes, A.

  5/02/18 → 31/03/19

  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.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/03/18 → 30/04/21

  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

• Benchmarking sustainable intensification of farms using AgRE Calc, DEA and ScotFarm

  Shrestha, S., Vosough Ahmadi, B., Thomson, S., Spencer, M., Barnes, A., Stott, A., Bell, J., Vosough Ahmadi, B., Spencer, M., Barnes, A., Inman, G. & Toma, L.

  SFC GRANT DUMMY CLIENT

  1/03/18 → 31/05/20

  Project: Research

• Genetic Evaluations for Danish Genetics Pig Data

  Coffey, M.

  1/03/18 → 28/02/19

  Project: Research

• The development of an alternative method to high concentration CO2 for the commercial stunning of pigs

  Baxter, E., Akaichi, F. & Farish, M.

  19/03/18 → 31/07/20

  Project: Research

• RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-21 WP2.1 Crop and grassland production and disease control

  Creissen, H., Gorniak, K., Bain, R., Yoxall, T., Paterson, L., Evans, A., Burnett, F. & Havis, N.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Physiological characterization of heat-tolerant bean genotypes in simulated future environments to enhance postconflict regional development

  Barnes, A. & Botero Degiovanni, H.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Bean breeding and Adoption in changing climates in post-conflict COlombia (BACO)

  Barnes, A. & Botero Degiovanni, H.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

  • Bean 100%
  • Latin America 84%
  • Climate Change 77%
  • growers 65%
  • beans 63%

• CTLGH African cattle genomic reference resource, SNP assays, and signature of selections

  Wall, E. & Mwacharo, J.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/04/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • Sheep 100%
  • Genome 75%
  • Sudan 74%
  • sheep 60%
  • environmental data 59%

• Rapid diagnostics and control strategies for enteric bacterial pathogens in back yard and commercial poultry production in Thailand and the Phillippines

  Sparks, N.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

• Garnock's buzzing

  Cole, L.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Towards BIOSmart livestock farming in Colombia: cultural landscape, silvo-pastoral systems and biodiversity

  Barnes, A. & Botero Degiovanni, H.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-21 WP2.1 Crop and grassland production and disease control

  Hoad, S., Crawford, C., Bingham, I., Hoebe, P., Brennan, M., Paterson, L., Topp, K., Baddeley, J., Miller, S., Stanisz-Migal, M., Taylor, J., Harrison, B., Baker, L., Gorniak, K., Whyte, F., Bain, R., Yoxall, T., Laing, A., Griffiths, B., Watson, C., Evans, A., Burnett, F., Irvine, S., Lawson, D., Havis, N., Creissen, H., Dussart, F., Houdijk, J., Walker, R. & Swaney, J.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• CTLGH Genetic and genomic evaluation delivery tools

  Wall, E., Mwacharo, J. & Mrode, R.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/04/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • Sheep 100%
  • Genome 75%
  • Sudan 74%
  • sheep 60%
  • environmental data 59%

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

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

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/04/18 → 3/03/24

  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

• Innovations in aquaculture: Delivering operational methods for the control of infectious disease

  Hutchings, M. & Davidson, R.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Delivery of on farm education visits

  Conington, J., Gordon, J., McLean, K. & Steel, M.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/20

  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

  • Campylobacter 100%
  • Quantitative Trait Loci 98%
  • Transcriptome 71%
  • Major Histocompatibility Complex 59%
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16 53%

• Feed Wheat

  Newbold, J.

  4/04/18 → 31/03/19

  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

• Profit through pollination - demonstration farm project

  Cole, L., Robertson, D. & Harrison, B.

  Soil Association Scotland

  1/05/18 → 30/04/20

  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.

  European Commission

  1/05/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

• migrant workers in scottish agriculture: a short film

  Atterton, J., McMorran, R. & Jones, S.

  14/05/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: Research

• Veterinary Epidemiology Consultancy: Assessing relationships between farmed salmon mortality and levels of known or putative pathogens of salmon

  Reeves, A.

  21/05/18 → 30/06/18

  Project: Research

• ICE Robotics Lying time curve

  Haskell, M., Duthie, C. & March, M.

  1/06/18 → 31/05/19

  Project: Research

• Fungicide performance on wheat, barley & oilseed rape 2018-2022

  Burnett, F.

  11/06/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Estimating the economic costs of bovine TB incidents on cattle farms in the high risk edge areas of England and Wales

  Barnes, A., Stott, A., Toma, L., Vosough Ahmadi, B., Barratt, A. & Hutchings, M.

  18/06/18 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

• To support the South Atlantic NCA project by providing ecosystem services valuation and Bayesian modelling expertise

  McVittie, A. & Glenk, K.

  18/06/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Provision of agronomic trials for cultivation and use 2018-2023 Lot 2

  Hoad, S. & Walker, R.

  Scottish Government

  30/06/18 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

• Living on the bank of the Garnock

  Cole, L. & Robertson, D.

  AYRSHIRE RIVERS TRUST

  1/07/18 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

• Nitrogen and sulphur fertiliser management to achieve grain protein quality targets of high yielding modern winter milling wheat

  Hoad, S.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/07/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Agronomic and disease control techniques to produce a profitable winter barley crop

  Creissen, H.

  MAINS OF LOIRSTON TRUST

  1/07/18 → 30/12/21

  Project: Research

• Legume SELECT: Science-driven evaluation of legume choice for transformed livelihoods

  Barnes, A.

  1/07/18 → 31/10/21

  Project: Research

  • Legumes 100%
  • Sub-Saharan Africa 72%
  • households 56%
  • legumes 48%
  • Household 38%