Agriculture
A SRUCcessful Farming Business
SRUC Edinburgh PhD student Jillian Gordon introduces us to Hillhead of Covington, a family run business with an SRUC connection. Hillhead of Covington is a dairy farm milking 400 Holstein...
Kathryn’s Journey into Journalism
SRUC alumni fill many vocational niches across the ‘natural economy’, perhaps the most well-known being farming. However, not all Agriculture graduates go on to become farmers. Kathryn Dick, who...
My Favourite Rural Business Management Module
SRUC student Megan Harvey is in her first year of the Rural Business Management course at the Edinburgh campus. Here she tells us what her favourite module is and how...
Sustainability in the Spirits Industry
Graeme Jarron is an Agriculture graduate from SRUC’s Aberdeen campus and is the Director of Ogilvy Spirits in Angus. He says that sustainability is an important part of the Scottish...
Crafting Rural Business Resilience: From Gin to Hand Sanitizer
Jill Brown studied Rural Business Management at SRUC Aberdeen, and is the owner and founder of Moray Distillery, producing award-winning Scottish gin. The Covid pandemic has thrown challenges at everyone,...
Rural Business Management Student Profile – Megan Harvey
SRUC student Megan Harvey is in her first year of the Rural Business Management degree at the Edinburgh campus. We asked Megan to tell us more about herself and why...
Georgina MacMillan – why I chose Agriculture
Georgina is 17 and from the highlands. Before she joined Barony she was studying at Ullapool high school. She is currently on the National Certificate in Agriculture. She tells us...
Student Profile – Jillian Gordon
Jillian Gordon from Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders studied Bioscience and Applied Animal Science at SRUC Edinburgh campus before embarking on a PhD. We asked her why she originally chose SRUC...
Why I chose a Modern Apprenticeship in Agriculture
Andrew Campbell is 16 years old and lives on a farm in Whithorn, which is a 400 acre mixed farm, with 220 sucklers, 160 ewes including 40 pedigree Texels and...
Changing Rooms
A three-bedroom farm cottage has been converted into a new space to support agriculture students at SRUC in Aberdeen. An investment of nearly £50,000 has transformed the house at SRUC’s...