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  Brexit: How might UK agriculture survive or thrive?

  Shrestha, S.

  1/04/17 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

  • welfare economics 100%
  • farm 60%
  • household 54%
  • agricultural policy 47%
  • Common Agricultural Policy 37%

• Development into sustainable sheep production: SusSheP

  Morgan-Davies, C., Lambe, N. & McLaren, A.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/04/17 → 31/07/20

  Project: Research

  • ewes 100%
  • sheep 78%
  • profitability 66%
  • labor 56%
  • flocks 49%

• Transition paths to sustainable legume based systems in Europe (TRUE)

  Rees, B., Toma, L., Olukosi, O., March, M., Akaichi, F., Shrestha, S. & Barnes, A.

  European Commission

  1/04/17 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

  • Fabaceae 100%
  • legumes 87%
  • nutrition 68%
  • Carbon Footprint 64%
  • Livestock 59%

• Improved estimation and mitigation of nitrous oxide emissions and soil carbon storage from crop residues (ResidueGas)

  Rees, B. & Topp, K.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/04/17 → 31/07/21

  Project: Research

  • United Kingdom 100%
  • case studies 84%
  • climate change 83%
  • livestock 81%
  • economic sectors 52%

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

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

  Michigan State University

  1/04/17 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

• Healthy animals, healthy food, healthy people

  Dwyer, C., Langford, F., Mitchell, M., Dixon, L. & Turner, S.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/04/17 → 30/03/21

  Project: Research

• Evaluation of the Griffin and Calliachar Enterprise Fund

  Atterton, J., Markantoni, M. & Meador, E.

  20/02/17 → 30/06/19

  Project: Research

• Carcass trait phenotype feedback for genomic selection in sheep

  Mucha, S., Lambe, N. & Conington, J.

  1/02/17 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• Managing resistance evolving concurrently against two or more modes of action, to extend the effective life of new fungicides

  Havis, N., Laing, A. & Burnett, F.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  4/01/17 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

• Advanced technologies for efficient crop management: a participatory approach with application at farm scale

  Hoad, S., Borthwick, F., Rees, B., Barnes, A., Crawford, C., Florence, A., Buckingham, S., Buckingham, S., Miller, S., Fortune, J., Vigors, B., Domalazek, N., Rzepka, A. & Redpath, R.

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/12/16 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

  • leaf area index 100%
  • Chlorophyll 98%
  • crop yield 93%
  • empirical models 80%
  • Triticum 77%

• Understanding ecosystem stocks and tipping points in UK peatlands

  Glenk, K.

  1/11/16 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

  • Willingness-to-pay 100%
  • Discrete Choice Experiment 77%
  • willingness to pay 62%
  • peatland 59%
  • Framing Effects 52%

• extension to Solutions for sustainable lamb production for more taste & less waste to increase food security in the UK and beyond

  Lambe, N.

  1/11/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Determining the fungicide resistance management strategy of minor UK crops using Botrytis as a model

  Havis, N.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• An investigation of the kinesiology of lying behaviour in dairy cattle and the implications for cow housing

  Haskell, M.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 30/06/21

  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

• iSAGE Innovation for sustainable sheep and goat production in Europe

  Banos, G. & Dellar, M.

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

• Sermons, carrots or sticks? Evaluating climate change management in agriculture

  Eory, V.

  1/10/16 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

• Potential benefits of commercially available fungal endophytes on the control of the major wheat diseases

  Havis, N.

  1/10/16 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Demand-driven solutions to reduce aggression in pigs

  Turner, S.

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Animal Welfare 100%
  • Aggression 71%
  • Swine 54%
  • Farmers 53%
  • Pheromones 30%

• 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

• Ewe and lamb behaviour and lamb mortality during the periparturient period - effects of nutrition and genotype

  Dwyer, C.

  Teagasc - Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority

  1/10/16 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• Understanding farmer wealth, well-being and welfare : a comparative study of Scottish and Irish beef farmers

  Barnes, A.

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

• Understanding components of specific weight in barley grains - opportunities for improving grain quality and processing efficiency

  Hoad, S.

  Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • plant architecture 100%
  • grain composition 88%
  • barley 69%
  • flowering 42%
  • water stress 38%

• Farmer behaviour and TB control: developing an interdisciplinary theory on the spread of infectious diseases

  Davidson, R.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 31/08/20

  Project: Research

• Development of international sheep genetic and genomic evaluations between Ireland and the UK

  Banos, G.

  Teagasc - Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority

  12/09/16 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

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

  Roehe, R., Duthie, C. & Dewhurst, R.

  1/09/16 → 31/08/19

  Project: Research

  • Rumen 100%
  • Microbiota 60%
  • Microbial Genes 43%
  • Metagenome 40%
  • Methane 36%

• Resistance elicitors to induce the inherent genetic resistance to eyespot and foliar diseases in varieties of wheat crops

  Havis, N.

  1/09/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Enhanced monitoring systems for improved health management of dairy-bred beef youngstock

  Duthie, C., Mason, C., Haskell, M., Parker, J. & McCubbin, I.

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/09/16 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

• The implications of Brexit for rural Scotland Budget

  Atterton, J.

  1/08/16 → 31/07/19

  Project: Research

• Rural Industries, funding for innovation, enterprise and impact: Alternative feeding strategies for Scottish pig, poultry and egg producers

  Houdijk, J.

  1/08/16 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Developing an integrated farm level model for spatial innovative uptake for Scottish Beef farms

  Barnes, A.

  1/07/16 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

• Sharing expertise and experience towards sheep productivity through NET working (SheepNET)

  Dwyer, C., Vipond, J., Morgan-Davies, C., Camerlink, I., Frater, P. & McLaren, A.

  European Commission

  1/07/16 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

  • lambs 100%
  • Turkey (country) 97%
  • sheep 79%
  • farmers 64%
  • dairy sheep 61%

• Sustainable Agriculture Intensification and the Nexus in Brazil (SAIN)

  Barnes, A., Alexander, P., Silva, R., Moran, D. & MacLeod, M.

  9/05/16 → 8/05/19

  Project: Research

• Innovative Use of Emerging Technologies to Improve Pig Production Efficiency

  Gomes, C., Gunn, G., Henry, M., Reeves, A., Adam, K., Cardoso Ribeiro, R., Pearce, M. & Humphry, R.

  4/04/16 → 29/03/19

  Project: Research

• Genetic evaluation of British Limousin Cattle Society Data

  Kaseja, K., Moore, K. & Wells, A.

  1/04/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

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

  Hoad, S., Taylor, J., Crawford, C., Bingham, I., Hoebe, P., Tarsitano, D., Brennan, M., Topp, K. & Baddeley, J.

  1/04/16 → 31/03/17

  Project: Research

• IMAGE Innovative management of animal genetic resources.

  Barnes, A., Vosough Ahmadi, B. & Moran, D.

  1/04/16 → 28/02/20

  Project: Research

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

  Dewhurst, R.

  European Commission

  1/04/16 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

  • Rumen 100%
  • Methane 91%
  • Microbial Genes 89%
  • Biomarkers 82%
  • methane 64%

• Collaborative development of positive welfare indicators for farm assurance

  Dwyer, C., Lawrence, A., Dixon, L., Mackay, J., Wemelsfelder, F. & Haskell, M.

  14/03/16 → 31/03/18

  Project: Research

• iSAGE Innovation for sustainable sheep and goat production in Europe

  Banos, G., Conington, J., Lambe, N., Wall, E., Topp, K. & Kapsona, V.

  1/03/16 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • Weather 100%
  • Sheep 80%
  • Volatilization 73%
  • Breeding 51%
  • Climate 51%

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

  Dewhurst, R.

  2/02/16 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

  • cattle productivity 100%
  • Breeding 73%
  • Sub-Saharan Africa 71%
  • Africa South of the Sahara 69%
  • dairy cattle 61%

• 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 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• N-CIRCLE: Virtual Joint centre for Closed-Loop Cycling of Nitrogen in Chinese Agriculture

  Rees, B., Roehe, R., Jones, S., Bingham, I., Tarsitano, D., Buckingham, S., Bell, M., Topp, K., Houdijk, J., Crawford, C., Anderson, C. & Parker, J.

  1/01/16 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

  • Nitrous Oxide 100%
  • Soil 80%
  • nitrous oxide production 77%
  • nitrous oxide 68%
  • agricultural soils 63%

• Agri-Tech in China Network + Newton Fund

  Dewhurst, R. & Stott, A.

  1/01/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Platform for African dairy genetic gain

  Dewhurst, R.

  1/01/16 → 31/05/19

  Project: Research

• Stress effects on the ovine rumen microbiome

  Dewhurst, R.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/12/15 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• Future-proofing our breeding goals: breeding for climate resilience in UK dairy systems

  Wall, E., Hill, D. & Moran, D.

  1/12/15 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

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

  Dewhurst, R.

  1/10/15 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

• Strategic use of carbohydrase enzymes in broiler diets to increase productivity by improving gut health

  Khattak, F.

  1/10/15 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

• Novel methods for understanding the causes and control of a malting barley grain defect called ?skinning?

  Hoad, S.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/15 → 31/07/20

  Project: Research