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This booklet represents the collated outputs from a SEFARI Gateway-funded Fellowship, undertaken by Dr Gemma Miller, Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) with the National Farmers Union Scotland (NFUS). The SEFARI Gateway Fellowships embed a researcher or team of Portfolio-funded researchers with a policy team, agency or sector organisation, with a key focus on working in partnership to deliver to Scotland’s National Outcomes and Sustainable Development Goals. This Fellowship sought to clarify the impact of Scottish agriculture on the climate and wider environment, and covered, through a series of
"The Royal Highland Show provides us with a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate that the science we do has purpose" After a two-year enforced hiatus, the James Hutton Institute’s return to the Royal Highland Show was a success: a steady stream of visitors visited the marquee including farmers, research partners and families, as well as a significant number of UK and Scottish politicians and elected representatives. Press and media enquiries: Bernardo Rodriguez-Salcedo, Media Manager, Tel: +44 (0)1224 395089 (direct line), +44 (0)344 928 5428 (switchboard) or +44 (0)7791 193918 (mobile). read
"The Best Soil in Show award recognises the efforts of farmers and land managers in managing their soils skilfully, now and for the future" The James Hutton Institute re-launched its Best Soil in Show competition at the Royal Highland Show last week, with the support of NFU Scotland and the Scottish Government, in a drive to highlight the importance of the critical role land managers play in maintaining healthy soils. Press and media enquiries: Bernardo Rodriguez-Salcedo, Media Manager, James Hutton Institute, Tel: +44 (0)1224 395089 (direct line), +44 (0)344 928 5428 (switchboard) or +44 (0
"The genetic relationships between plants and the microbiota remain a complex jigsaw. However, today this joint effort has uncovered important pieces making us in the position to take a step forward towards the development of net-zero crops" The thin layer of soil surrounding plant roots, an interface that scientists define as the rhizosphere, is a habitat for a multitude of microorganisms collectively referred to as the rhizosphere microbiota. In analogy with the microbiota populating the digestive tract of vertebrates, the rhizosphere microbiota can promote the health, development and growth
Centres of Expertise at the forefront of providing vital research on the challenges facing the environment, agriculture and rural economies, have been awarded multi-million pound contracts by the Scottish Government as announced by the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at the Royal Highland Show on 24 th June 2022. Over £35 million pounds has been secured to deliver scientific support, research and advice on key issues affecting the climate, water, animal disease outbreaks and rural communities. The 5-year investment package will be split between the Centres specialising in climate research
Healthy Soils for a Green Recovery is a new five year Scottish Governement funded programme of soils research delivered as part of the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Strategic Research Portfolio (2022-2027). Healthy Soils aims to strenghten the evidence base to support and inform decision-making, practice and uptake for sustainable management and minimization of degradation and loss of Scotland's soils. The programme of work will deliver new insights and knowledge on the role of Scottish soils, and the benefits that they confer. The Soil Sentinel is a new newsletter that will
The Soil Sentinel is a new newsletter circulated every four months as part of Healthy Soils, a five year Scottish Governement funded project delivered as part of the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Strategic Research Portfolio (2022-2027). The Soil Sentinel will provide project highlights and its work with input from other Scottish Government funded projects and stakeholders.
A SEFARI Gateway-funded Specialist Advisory Group brought together a broad range of expertise across key industry stakeholders, Government Policy Leads and relevant SEFARI researchers to discuss livestock health and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), to prioritise health conditions that have the greatest impact on emissions and to identify practical disease intervention strategies and pathways to impact that will encourage uptake across the industry. The Group conducted an online workshop on the 24th of November 2020.
Full list of experts involved in the Specialist Advisory Group Nigel Miller, (Chair) Ruminant Health & Welfare Group & Farmer Professor Julie Fitzpatrick, Moredun Research Institute Ian Duncan-Miller, Moredun Research Institute & Farmer George Caldow, SAC Consulting and Livestock Health Scotland George Milne, Livestock Health Scotland & Farmer Donald Armour, Vet and Dairy Farmer Colin Mason, SRUC Kath Dun, Vet (Sheep) Ed Hill, Vet (Sheep) Michael MacLeod, SRUC Dominic Mellor, University of Glasgow Robert Fleming, Livestock Health Scotland & Beef Farmer & Jim Walker Group Hilary Burgess