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Jenny McMillan

Jenny is an Agricultural Economist at SRUC, and her areas of work include analysis of the intentions of Scottish farmers through data analysis of surveys, currently with a specific focus on intentions and views surrounding Brexit. Jenny is also involved in research focused on reviewing measures to improve productivity within Scottish agriculture. She additionally contributes to publications on agriculture and rural development policy produced within the research division of SRUC.

Jenny McMillan

Scotland’s Rural College

Peter Wilson Building, The King's Buildings

West Mains Road

Edinburgh

EH9 3JG

Mitigating against, and adapting to, the effects of climate change: Grasslands and Crop Genetics

Grasslands, carbon sequestration and greenhouse gases

What are the benefits of grasslands?

Globally, grasslands represent 70% of the agricultural land area. In Scotland the figure is even higher (approximately 80%), due to the contribution from rough grazing on land less favourable for agriculture (LFA).

Working with growers to manage the agronomic challenges to crop production

The sunshine and heat of last summer in Scotland was enjoyed by many of us and meant we had the chance to enjoy being outside more, but for Scotland’s crops it was just another example of the vagaries of our climate and the environmental stresses they must endure. For farmers and their agronomists who manage these crops, the weather threw up a whole new set of problems and decisions.

How agronomists can help?

Dr Vera Eory

Vera is interested in the socio-economic aspects of sustainable agriculture and works with interdisciplinary methods to understand better how to reduce the environmental effects of agricultural production. Her research spans across topics, including the cost-effectiveness of mitigation practices, environmental co-effects, farmers’ perceptions and the assessment of policy instruments. Besides developing and leading research projects, she supervises PhD projects and works with a range of stakeholders.

Research interests

Vera Eory

Scotland’s Rural College

Peter Wilson Building, The King's Buildings

West Mains Road

Edinburgh

EH9 3JG

Dr Shailesh Shrestha

Shailesh is is an agricultural policy analyst at SRUC. His research interest lies in impact assessment of changes that directly and indirectly affect agricultural farms such as changes in policies, market and climate. He is also keen on looking at the farm’s responses to such changes, and specialises in farm level modelling and farm system analysis.

Shailesh Shrestha

Scotland’s Rural College

Peter Wilson Building, The King's Buildings

West Mains Road

Edinburgh

EH9 3JG

Field Lab: Plant Teams. Heritage grains and crop innovation for crofters

Find out about new research into heritage grains like Bere (an ancient type of Scottish barley) and which species mixtures are particularly suited to the West of Scotland.
Visit Baleveolan Croft on the Isle of Lismore where Mike Hyatt and Clare Haworth are in their first year of trialling peas and oats and a Uist seed mix.
Learn about seed sovereignty and food commons.
Get practical advice on growing and harvesting an intercrop and find out more about trials across Scotland.
Hear from speakers Peter Martin (Agronomy Institute, Orkney College),

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Scotland’s harmful acidic soils - Can liming improve cropping sustainability?

The Soil Survey of Scotland shows that large areas of Scotland have acidic soils. Soils with a pH less than 5.6 inhibit root growth, which can reduce crop yields. Liming, the addition of calcium and magnesium-rich materials that alkalinise the soil, is a valuable practice to manage soil acidity. Indeed, liming has implications for both the environment and agricultural production. To understand the consequences of liming better, we have studied historic data on crop yield responses to liming.

Dr Fiona Kenyon

Fiona is a researcher at the Moredun Research Institute, who specialises in how differenct anthelmintic treatment strategies affect the development of anthelmintic resistance, and has been working on developing targeted treatment (optimised whole-flock treatments) and targeted selected treatment (treating only those individucals within a flock that will gain a benefit) strategies in sheep.

Fiona Kenyon

Moredun

Pentland Science Park

Bush Loan

Penicuik

Midlothian

EH26 0PZ

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Cropping Systems

Background

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have released a stark warning of the consequences of uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions in a recent Special Report. We now recognise that to avoid dangerous climate change, it will be necessary to limit global temperature rises to no more than 1.5^oC above preindustrial levels.

Professor Eileen Wall

Eileen is a livestock genetics and systems researcher within the Animal & Veterinary Sciences Groups at SRUC, with experience in animal breeding, genetics, modelling and biostatistics. For SEFARI, Eileen is the Work Package Cordinator for Agricultural systems and land management; working on improving livestock management and genetics.

Eileen Wall

Scotland’s Rural College

Peter Wilson Building, The King's Buildings

West Mains Road

Edinburgh

EH9 3JG

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