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An SRUC graduate has been shortlisted for the title of Agricultural Student of the Year at the 2018 British Farming Awards.

The president of the SRUC student body has welcomed the Scottish Government’s decision to make sanitary products freely available to pupils, students and learners across the country.

"There are genuine potential game-changing opportunities both for new and conventional horticultural and agricultural systems that can come from the collaboration between IGS and the James Hutton Institute"

A motor racing marketing guru who went on to create an award-winning gin company is set to explain the winning formula for diversification.

Scotland’s Rural College has been recognised for the global impact of its dairy research by a leading scientific journal.

Obesity has become one of the most significant challenges to human health.

raspberry "We’ve tried for a long time to try to understand the basis of flavour in raspberries and what we found was it was determined to a very large extent by environmental factors"

Professor Steve Hillier "We are always looking to improve our methods and our participation in the Reynolds Cup has helped to keep us at the leading edge, internationally, of the development of quantitative mineralogical analysis of soils and rocks"

Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) has become one of only two institutions in Scotland – and only ten in the UK – to offer a degree in Veterinary Nursing.

"Sometimes, policy solutions that make perfect sense at first sight can lead to unintended consequences because, although people make decisions independently, the effects of those decisions are played out in a shared space"

"We modelled the water temperature of the river Spey as the first step towards assessing how future changes in climate, land-use, management, industry and water use might influence river temperatures"

"Germinate 3 fills a role not offered by other plant genetic resources software platform. In short, it is capable of integrating both genotypic and phenotypic data with passport data" Related content 

"When the weather is warmer than 14-22˚C, tuber production is inhibited, reducing potato tuber production, with damaging consequences for both producer and consumer"

An unlikely new weapon in Scottish farming’s battle with the multi-million pound slug menace has been revealed – Swiss-style muesli.

"It’s an important time for dairy farming in the UK; the sector has moved away from one type of system based on seasonal grazing and housing."

The importance of body condition scoring mature ewes at key stages in the year, such as weaning and pre-tupping, has been highlighted by the Scottish Government’s Farm Advisory Service (FAS).

SRUC’s Kirkton & Auchtertyre upland research and demonstration farms, near Crianlarich, were recently the focus of a Ministerial visit.

A special event at Scotland’s only “phenotype farm” has highlighted the importance of feed-intake monitoring.

Staff from SRUC's Rural Policy Centre recently spent a day in London talking to politicians and policy makers about post-Brexit challenges in Scotand.

A large-scale telephone survey of thousands of Scottish farmers has been announced.