"There is so much innovation occurring on new entrant farms – we hope that raising their profile this way will inspire others to join the sector and innovate." National Farmers Union presidents from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have agreed to judge a new award for 'New Entrant Farm Business of the Year'. Minette Batters (NFU), Andrew McCornick (NFUS), Glyn Roberts (FUW), John Davies (NFU Cymru) and Ivor Ferguson (UFU) will meet to decide the winner in January 2019. Related content Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Lee-Ann Sutherland Annie McKee Sharon Flanigan More
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"Anyone who grows potatoes, be it in large scale on a field, or in their back gardens - can learn to better understand potato pests and diseases, their cause and how to prevent them" The James Hutton Institute's Information and Computational Sciences group have announced a web version of Buntata, the free mobile application launched last year to help potato growers identify plant pests and diseases in the field. Following on from the success of the mobile app, which has quickly become the Institute's most popular application on the Android platform, the ICS team have taken it a step further
Babies that aren't even born yet could help Aberdeen scientists to improve the health of future generations.
"These genes, if introgressed into new cultivars via breeding or alternative routes, could significantly reduce the dependency on pesticides for crop production An improved technique for capturing DNA in crops may give plant breeders huge advantages when it comes to developing varieties that are more resilient to pests and diseases. The technique, known as diagnostic Resistance gene enrichment Sequencing (dRenSeq), enables the high-confidence identification and complete sequence validation of functional resistance genes. Related content Cell and Molecular Sciences Ingo Hein More information
Women working in Scottish agriculture will be “making their voices heard” at this year’s autumn conference.
For the fourth consecutive year, we will be attending Food Matters Live, an event dedicated to cross-section connections around the future of food and drink, and sustainable nutrition. This unique event will return to London’s ExCel and bring together exhibitors across innovative ingredients, research, brand and products together alongside an array of interesting and diverse conferences and seminars. The full schedule across the three days can be accessed here. SEFARI is working in partnership with Scotland Food and Drink (SF&D) and jointly exhibiting together over the three-day event. Our
This conference will seek to help inform and shape the debate about how best to reward farmers, foresters and other land managers for delivering public goods from their land management practices. In particular it will provide a forum to help develop thinking of practical implementation on the ground and what that means for policy development. We are delighted that the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform, Rosanna Cunnigham MSP is able to address the conference. It is now being recognised that any funding that goes to land managers in the future is going to have to
Science and the Parliament aims to foster close relations between policymakers and key stakeholders. This event is organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry and is a firm fixture in the Scottish parliamentary calendar. This year’s presentations will be based on the theme of 'Education and Skills’, and includes several exciting speakers. More information about Science and the Parliament can be found here, while the programme of events can be dowloaded here. Our exhibit will demonstrate a brand new app designed by Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland called Cowtastophy, which demonstrates
This conference will consider some of the new challenges facing biodiversity conservation and the novel and innovative solutions biodiversity science can offer. The conference will run from 13:00, Monday, 5 November to 13:00, Tuesday, 6 November. It will focus on four main themes: Species health and management Landscape scale conservation Climate change Public engagement Each session will include an overview keynote presentation, detailed talks on specific issues and short speed talks. You can view the full conference programme here while more information can be found here. Jane Smart, Global
This report presents key findings from a project which aimed to provide a better understanding of the use of seasonal workers of non-UK origin in Scottish agriculture. Evidence was collected from a range of sources including Scottish Government administrative data, surveys of farmers and seasonal migrant workers, farmer and wider stakeholder interviews, and group interviews with seasonal migrant workers.