Linda Hanna, chair of the SRUC board, is to resign her position for personal reasons with effect from next month after three and a half years in the role. She became SRUC’s first ever female chair when she was elected in March 2022....
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has appointed Janet Swadling OBE as interim chief executive effective from 19 August. She succeeds the current chief executive Graham Wilkinson who leaves the AHDB on 22...
Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) has appointed five new non-executive directors to its board. The new board members include outgoing MSP Oliver Mundell, who will stand down as MSP for Dumfriesshire at next year’s Scottish Parliament elections. Also joining the SRUC...
An Innovate UK project is exploring the use of a zooplankton as a replacement for fishmeal in young broiler diets. If successful, the project partners believe the novel protein could be useful in other farmed species. The Farmed Marine Proteins for Poultry Feed study...
Farm inputs supplier Agricultural Central Trading (ACT) has launched a new sponsorship scheme to improve access to higher education in agriculture. Currently only available in Scotland, the ACT scholarship is being piloted through...
Northern Ireland’s Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) is leading a UK-wide consortium of dairy research organisations to deliver the Defra funded UK Dairy Carbon Network project. The multi-million-pound initiative’s primary...