Agricultural & Landbased

Opening doors to the agriculture industry, and progressing within the field

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Joanna Foubister is a Trainee Agricultural Consultant at the SAC Consulting Office in Stonehaven. “I applied to study SRUC’s MSc Agricultural Professional Practice after deciding I wanted to pursue a career...

Categories: Aberdeen, Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Postgraduate, and Student Successes Tags: #Agriculture, agricultural, consultancy, consulting, MSc, Postgrad, postgraduate, practice, professional, sac, and SRUCAberdeen

Wonky Competition!

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Take part in SRUC’s 2018-19 student competition! Showcase your creativity, entrepreneurial flair and innovation. Impress the expert judging panel with your wonky produce ideas. Total prizes £800 cash plus the...

Categories: Aberdeen events, Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Ayr, Ayr events, Barony, Barony events, Business, Campus, Edinburgh, Edinburgh events, Elmwood, Elmwood events, Oatridge, Oatridge events, Organic Farming, and SRUC Subjects Tags: #student, Competition, and students

Welcome to new students 2018

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Our Principal, Wayne Powell, records a welcome video to all our students each year. You can watch this online here: Link to the video on Vimeo    

Categories: Aberdeen, Activity Tourism, Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Animal & Biological, Animal Care, Animal Science, Ayr, Barony, Biological Sciences, Business, Campus, City & Guilds, Countryside Management, Degree, Distance Learning, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Environment, Environment and Countryside, Equine and Horse Care, Forestry and Arboriculture, Garden Design, Gardening Scotland, Golf, Green & Renewable Technology, Greenkeeping and Sports Turf, HN Level, Horticulture, Hospitality, Introductory, Land-based Engineering, Land-Based Skills, Landscape, Modern Apprenticeships, Oatridge, Organic Farming, Postgraduate, Poultry, Professional Certification, Renewables, Rural & Estate Skills, Short Courses, Sports, SRUC Subjects, Study level, Sustainability, and Veterinary Nursing
Andrew Neilson

Young Farmer of the Year

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

The inaugural Young Farmer of the Year award turned out to be a six-way battle of SRUC alumni. Andrew Neilson, who gained an NC in land-based engineering from the Barony...

Categories: Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Barony, Land-based Engineering, SRUC Subjects, Student Life, and Student Successes Tags: #Agriculture, awards, land-based, Land-based engineering, SAYFC, and SRUCcess

Why are you doing this?

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

We asked our current students what motivated them to study their course…. here are the full results: There are some variations by subject area – those studying subjects related to animals are...

Categories: Aberdeen, Advice, Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Animal & Biological, Animal Care, Animal Science, Ayr, Barony, Biological Sciences, Business, Countryside Management, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Environment, Environment and Countryside, Equine and Horse Care, Forestry and Arboriculture, Garden Design, Golf, Green & Renewable Technology, Greenkeeping and Sports Turf, Horticulture, Hospitality, Land-based Engineering, Land-Based Skills, Landscape, Oatridge, Poultry, Renewables, Rural & Estate Skills, Sports, SRUC Subjects, Student Life, Student Successes, Sustainability, and Veterinary Nursing

MSc Organic Farming Student Jo Is Blooming Marvellous

Posted on April 5, 2018 by Bridgit Edmonstone

  Jo Wright, a student on the MSc Organic Farming programme is the founder of Organic Blooms, the first Soil Association certified Flower Farm and is passionate about educating the consumer on the...

Categories: Aberdeen, Aberdeen events, Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Distance Learning, Postgraduate, Student Life, and Student Successes

Aberdeen Agriculture Student in Pinnacle Awards Final

Posted on April 5, 2018 by Bridgit Edmonstone

  A huge congratulations to our very own Ag3 student Kerry Cartwright who has reached the finals of the Farmers Club Pinnacle Awards. The awards, which are now in their...

Categories: Aberdeen, Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Campus, and Student Successes

It’s Carrot Day!

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

The 4th April is International Carrot Day so here’s our celebration of one of Britain’s favourite vegetables. Did you know, one carrot gives you the energy for 10-15 minutes of...

Categories: Aberdeen, Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Ayr, Barony, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Horticulture, Oatridge, and Student Life Tags: #Agriculture, carrots, crop, crops, Horticulture, and production
Toby Ross, SRUC Edinburgh Rural Business Management student

Toby Ross – Rural Management

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Rich Gordon

Toby Ross, 34, changed his path from working in marketing and broadcasting to study HND Rural Business Management with us at SRUC Edinburgh. Speaking of his career before his time...

Categories: Advice, Agricultural & Landbased, Business, Change your path, Edinburgh, HN Level, Rural & Estate Skills, Student opportunities, and Student Successes Tags: Change your path, CYP, Rural Business Management, SRUC Edinburgh, and Toby Ross
Ailish Ross bottle feeding a calf

Positive of the benefits of animal welfare?

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

  Positive farm animal welfare is a relatively new idea which brings attention to animals having a good life. Positive farm animal welfare is in sympathy with public opinion and...

Categories: Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Animal & Biological, Animal Care, Animal Science, Biological Sciences, Organic Farming, SRUC Subjects, Student Life, Sustainability, and Uncategorized Tags: Animal, Animal Science, Applied animal science, care, research, SRUC Research, and welfare