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A total of 354 hours of sunshine were recorded on our site during Autumn 2024, making this autumn the second sunniest since our records began in 1954.
Last week I was delighted to accept an invitation to attend a lunch event at Westminster for the new Sustainable Farm Networks (SFN) initiative linked to Harper Adams.
The Scottish Society for Crop Research (SSCR) hosted a dinner in November to celebrate 100 years of coordinated crop research and plant breeding in Scotland.
This years’ ISRR Dundee root medal and workshop on “Breeding crops for marginal conditions with an emphasis on roots” took place on the 6th November 2024.
Dr Hannah Rudman, Senior Research Fellow at the James Hutton Institute, has been appointed co-chair of the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital.
Scotia bring together people with experience of interdisciplinary approaches to food production who seek a balanced judgement of the long-term effects of innovation on the conservation of the land in Scotland.
A great day was had by all on Monday the 23rd September 2024 at Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh. At the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Research Portfolio (ENRA) Science Evidence and Policy Conference.
I took part in a panel organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) to promote and discuss their report, Inquiry into Public Financial Support for Tree Planting and Forestry.
Kerry Waylen, Social Researcher at the James Hutton Institute, discusses how the 45th MDT Lecture by Professor Gretchen Daily can allow us to reflect on how we protect and relate to Scotland’s natural environment and it’s ‘natural capital.’
The UK CropDiversity High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, managed by The James Hutton Institute, is helping supercharge science in the UK.
