Agriculture

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
Gareth Austin

Learning From A Distance

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Anouska Curzon

SRUC Alumnus Gareth Austin wanted to study either horticulture or agriculture but there were no courses available close to where he lives so he decided that distance learning would be...

Categories: Advice, Agriculture, Distance Learning, Focus on, Horticulture, Organic Farming, Postgraduate, Student Life, Student Successes, Study level, and Uncategorized Tags: #Agriculture, #SRUCHorticulture, alumni, Distance Learning, Horticulture, Organic Farming, SRUC, and SRUC Alumni
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
students with awards

Students awarded at prizegiving ceremony

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Shona Warwick

Hardworking students have been presented with certificates and prizes at the annual awards ceremony at Barony Campus in front of an audience of friends and family. More than 30 prizes were...

Categories: Agriculture, Animal Care, Barony, Barony events, Forestry and Arboriculture, Land-based Engineering, Rural & Estate Skills, Student Successes, Uncategorized, and Veterinary Nursing Tags: #Agriculture, Animal Care, Engineering, Forestry, Forestry and Arboriculture, Land-based engineering, Rural and Estate Skills, SRUCBarony, Vet Nursing, and Veterinary Nursing

Let’s clear the air

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Clean air day (21st June) seems a good day to highlight the contribution SRUC is making to the Farming for a Better Climate programme. Farming for a Better Climate (FFBC)...

Categories: Agriculture, Animal Science, Environment, Environment and Countryside, Green & Renewable Technology, Renewables, Student Life, Sustainability, and Uncategorized Tags: #Agriculture, #cleanairday, agricultural, air, air quality, carbon, climare change, climate, emissions, environment, and Environmental
kids in front of new holland tractor

Fun in the Sun at Barony Open Day

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Shona Warwick

A sunny warm afternoon attracted more than 3000 visitors to Sunday’s Open Day at Barony Campus. The day allowed the public to get up close to everything that happens on...

Categories: Agriculture, Animal Care, Barony, Barony events, Campus, Forestry and Arboriculture, Land-based Engineering, Land-Based Skills, Rural & Estate Skills, and Veterinary Nursing Tags: Animal Care, Engineering, Forestry, Forestry and Arboriculture, Land-based engineering, Open day, Rural and Estate Skills, SRUC Barony, SRUCBarony, and Veterinary Nursing

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