Podcasts about scotland's rural college

Welcome to the Scotland Grows Show, the podcast which celebrates everything that is good in Scottish gardening, as we join gardeners around the country to find out what grows well where they are, and pick up tips and stories along the way.   Victoria George is the guest in this episode. Victoria is the Technical Apprenticeship Lead at SRUC, Scotland's Rural College, where she has developed the first degree-level apprenticeships for the land-based sector in Scotland.    She is also the National Organiser for the Chartered Institute of Horticulture's ‘Young Horticulturist of the Year' competition, a competition open UK and Ireland wide to find the brightest horticultural minds under 30 years old, and in this episode, we'll find out much more about what the competition involves, and how you can enter, as well as hear from Victoria about starting her own career in horticulture at age 35 and her advice to you if you are thinking of making a career change to the wonderful world of horticulture. -------------------------------------------- Be sure to sign up to our mailing list so we can let you know when new episodes are published.   Scotland Grows magazine is our digital title which celebrates Scottish gardening, and drops into your inbox 6 times a year. If you would like to subscribe to receive a copy, just follow this LINK.   You can follow Scotland Grows on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, we'd love to have your company there!   And of course, you can always find your share of gardening goodness on our website at scotlandgrowsmagazine.com. -------------------------------------------- This series is sponsored by ROOTS, a subscription from the National Trust for Scotland which helps both your garden and Trust gardens thrive.   For £6 a month you will be sent a ROOTS pack every six weeks, with gardening gifts, including Scottish seeds six times a year, stories about Scotland's plant life, and tips from  expert Trust gardeners, as well as an invitation to two exclusive ROOTS events a year with the Trust gardens team.   Whether you buy ROOTS for yourself or as a gift for a loved one, your £6 a month will go towards supporting Trust gardens and designed landscapes in Scotland. Sign up today at nts.org.uk/roots and use the code Grows24 to receive an extra packet of seeds in your first pack.   Find out more here: www.nts.org.uk/roots

Long abandoned metal mines are having a huge impact on rivers across the UK. BBC Inside Science reporter Patrick Hughes visits Cwmystwyth in Wales, where he finds lead, zinc and cadmium seeping into waterways. It's the costly legacy left after hundreds of years of mining. Roma Agrawal breaks down our modern world into seven essential basic inventions in her book Nuts and Bolts which has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize. She talks to Marnie about the surprising history behind some of these inventions.  And, as a cryogenic tank of bull semen is stolen from a farm in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, it got us thinking: how can selective breeding help reduce carbon and methane emissions from cattle? Professor Eileen Wall from Scotland's Rural College tells us more. Presenter:  Marnie Chesterton Producers: Harrison Lewis, Hannah Robins and Patrick Hughes Editor: Richard Collings Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth BBC Inside Science is produced in Cardiff by BBC Wales and West in collaboration with the Open University.

Professor Mark Reed is an academic, author, podcaster, consultant, trainer, policy advisor among his many roles. His research area is on ecosystem markets and environmental governance, and he studies how researchers can generate and share their knowledge so they can change the world. Reflecting both of these strands, he is both an academic, co-directing a research Centre at Scotland's Rural College, and he is the founder of Fast Track Impact, a training and coaching company, and he hosts The Fast Track Impact podcast. He also has a host of other roles you can read about on his web page. We discuss the concept of 'impact' in academia, the challenges of mental health and burnout amongst academics, and the importance of self-compassion, self-reflection and self-care. Driven by a desire to make a difference, Mark intertwines his academic inquiries with a commitment to environmental stewardship and decolonizing research. He also talks about his commitment to empowering colleagues, managing postdocs efficiently, and his take on the biases and limitations within the academic system.Overview00:05 Introduction00:30 Meet Professor Mark Reed: A Multi-faceted Academic01:18 The Importance of Self-Reflection in Academia01:56 Mark's Personal Struggles and the Importance of Self-Compassion02:07 The Role of Purpose and Values in Mark's Work02:56 Mark's Journey as an Academic and Policy Advisor07:23 The Challenges and Biases in the Academic System08:32 Building a Compassionate Culture in Academia11:33 Decolonizing Research and Influencing Policy27:11 The Role of Empathy and Love in Research32:13 The Importance of Self-Care and Work-Life Balance in Academia48:05 Creating a Purposeful Workplace and Leading from the Bottom Up51:24 Conclusion: The Impact of Love and Empathy in Academia52:56 EndListen here for a version to follow the transcript linked directly to the audioRelated LinksMark's research web page & Fast Track Impact pageMark's books: https://www.fasttrackimpact.com/books#impact-cultureThe Research Impact Handbook 2nd Ed 2018The Productive Researcher 2017Impact Culture 2022 Mark's ‘The Fast Track Impact' podcast seriesMark Reed & Hanna Rudman, Re-thinking research impact: voice, context and power at the interface of science, policy and practice, 18, Sustainability Science, 967-981, 2023.Richard Watermeyer's 2019 book:

The System Part 2 – with Graeme Mcdowall   In this podcast Graeme Mcdowall, a Lecturer in Skill Acquisition at Scotland's Rural College and The Open University, and I discuss effective practice environments and finding appropriate problems for your players.   We discuss:   Enabling individual differences Skill emerging from the practice environment  Designing developmentally appropriate problems for your player How many young pro's or aspiring golfers actually live the talk?   You can find Ed on X @GraemeMcDowall    Buy Graeme's new book, The System: What We Can Learn When Science and Reason Collide with Scottish Football here: https://amzn.eu/d/5UBHEU7    Come join us at: www.practicethinkers.com   Are you getting the most out of your practice time? Do you know what you are practising is the best use of your time? If the answer is no to either of these questions we can help you optimise your practice time enabling you to shoot lower scores.   Sign up for a FREE 30 minute Practice Consultation here: https://www.practicethinkers.com/free-practice-chat

The System Part 1 – with Graeme Mcdowall   In this podcast Graeme Mcdowall, a Lecturer in Skill Acquisition at Scotland's Rural College and The Open University, and I discuss effective practice activities and organising practice problems around solutions.    Topics covered: - The danger of excelling in block practice activities  - Playing versus Working  - Organising practice problems and solutions    You can find Graeme on X @GraemeMcDowall    Buy Graeme's new book, The System: What We Can Learn When Science and Reason Collide with Scottish Football here: https://amzn.eu/d/5UBHEU7    Come join us at: www.practicethinkers.com   Are you getting the most out of your practice time? Do you know what you are practising is the best use of your time? If the answer is no to either of these questions we can help you optimise your practice time enabling you to shoot lower scores.   Sign up for a FREE 30 minute Practice Consultation here: FOR COACHES    https://www.practicethinkers.com/free-practice-chat   

In this episode, Melanie discusses animal minds and animal ethics with Professor Francoise Wemelsfelder. Francoise is Professor of Animal Behaviour and Welfare at Scotland's Rural College. She pioneered a methodology for the study of animal expressivity (body language) and subjective experience, generally referred to as ‘Qualitative Behaviour Assessment' (QBA). Her research focuses on the application of this method as a practical tool for welfare assessment and management in farm, zoo, and companion animals. Research interests associated with this work are animal boredom and environmental enrichment.

"If the customer is willing to pay the price, we have produce available." - Philippe Appeltans, CEO of the Belgian salad and fruit co-operative, BelOrta. In this programme Charlotte Smith has an in-depth chat with Philippe about how growing and selling on the continent compares to the UK. It comes as salad shortages continue on supermarket shelves here - blamed by retailers on bad weather in Morocco and Spain and by growers on retailers refusal to pay a realistic price for home grown produce. And can tech solve tail biting in pigs? We visit a research farm at Scotland's Rural College. Presented by Charlotte Smith Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons

The heatwave has brought a series of field fires as farmers start to gather in the harvest. The combination of working machinery, high temperatures and very dry crops is something farmers have to be vigilant about. Scotland's Rural College has just bought a new piece of kit for their dairy herd, which they claim will practically eliminate methane and ammonia emissions from their slurry production. All this week we're talking dairy, and one of the big conversations for this sector is prices. Gundenham Dairy in Somerset manages its own processing on-site, allowing them a unique degree of control over the process. But that, we hear, comes with its own challenges. Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

What kind of standards, codes and governance structures are needed for investors to have confidence in buying carbon credits? In the UK, many carbon codes are under development to allow for the sale of credits from nature restoration. Professor Mark Reed has been a leading voice in the role of governance, as well as being the architect of the Peatland Carbon Code and involved in the development of other codes across the UK. In this episode, he shares his thinking on the next steps around governance infrastructure for the emerging UK environmental markets.

In this episode of Cut the Crop, Alison Stewart talks to Fiona Burnett, from Scotland's Rural College about Ramularia. They cover current chemical control options and possible future solutions for this “complex beast” which has a nasty back record of breaking fungicides.

In a worst-case scenario, new fungicide actives may ‘break' within three years. In this episode of Cut the Crop, Fiona Burnett from Scotland's Rural College discusses mixing and dose rates, stressing that taking some very simple steps on-farm will help preserve fungicide efficacy.

Humans need water and food to survive. However, the world is increasingly entering a global food system crisis and our current agricultural system is also significantly contributing to climate change. All our contemporary crises are interlinked. This challenges us as a society to change our global food system! This podcast episode is a discussion I had with Professor Mads Fischer-Moller who works on food policy at Scotland's Rural College and is leader at the Future Food System Challenge Centre. Before coming to Scotland Mads worked as a civil servant in Denmark and for the Nordic Intergovernmental Cooperation on Food Policy. In this episode we discuss a range of topics including what the biggest challenges in our current food system are, food poverty, food culture, what we can learn from the Nordic countries, Scotland's Good Food Nation Bill, and how we can contribute to changing the global food system! I hope you enjoy this episode and if you do - please share it and feel let me know on Instagram or Twitter. All best wishes, Léa --- Podcast Instagram: @ecoactivistjourneys Instagram Léa: @ecoactivist.lea My Twitter: @WeimannLea My website: HOME - Eco Activists (eco-activists.co.za) #SystemChange #GlobalFoodSystem #FoodCrisis #FoodPolicy #ClimateChange

In this episode Mark introduces Season 4, discusses why we need to think harder about the culture in which we do our work, and unpacks what a healthy impact culture looks like. To do this, he draws on his new book, Impact Culture, and provides some practical examples of how he is putting the ideas into practice as he builds a new research centre at Scotland's Rural College.Read the peer-reviewed journal publication that summarises the lessons from the book.Follow Mark at @fasttrackimpact and @profmarkreed or on LinkedIn. Impact Culture is released as a paperback, e-book and audio book on 25th March 2022. Find out more at: https://www.fasttrackimpact.com/impactculture.

Helen Needham speaks with Professor Mads Fischer-Moller of Scotland's Rural College.

In this first episode, Dougie Vipond discusses food production and the challenge of carbon emissions for Scots and UK farmers. His guests are Steven Thomson, Senior Agricultural Economist at SRUC, Scotland's Rural College; Sally Williams, former Chair of the Oxford Farming Conference; and Dave Reay, Professor of Carbon Management and Education at Edinburgh University. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Farmers warn that we are in danger of exporting our pig industry. Some producers fear they may have to cull their animals because they can't get them butchered, others are leaving the sector. They say that leaves the way open for cheap imports. Processors say hundreds of thousands of pigs are stuck on farms because there aren't enough workers in abattoirs and processing plants. They blame a mixture of Brexit and Covid. How can you tell what a cow is feeling? Researchers from Scotland's Rural College have created an App to help measure the emotional wellbeing of livestock. Waitrose is now using it so that independent assessors can collect data on the emotional state of the livestock on the farms that supply the supermarket with everything from dairy to farmed salmon. We visit the Commonwealth Potato Collection, at the James Hutton Instituteon the outskirts of Dundee. It's a living library of some of the world's rarest potato species and breeders believe it could hold the key to solving some of the crop's disease problems. Producer = Rebecca Rooney Presenter = Charlotte Smith

Growing genetically edited crops has moved another step closer to being a reality in England with a new report for the government on how new regulations could work. The Regulatory Horizon Council, an independent committee which advises government, suggests a ‘light touch' approach which would treat GE crops more like conventionally grown ones and so reduce the time and cost of getting permission for new products. Anti GM campaigners say the report is disappointing and misrepresentative. For centuries livestock farmers have been fine tuning breeding. In the past it was about finding the tastiest meat or the best fleeces. Now, modern breeding methods can help reduce the risk of disease, boost profits and even help cut the carbon footprint of farming. This week we're all about animal breeding and to kick us off we hear from Professor Mike Coffey, Leader of Animal Breeding and Genomics at SRUC, Scotland's Rural College. Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

Cattle emit huge quantities of planet-warming methane. But they can be stopped! Tom Heap meets Eileen Wall from SRUC, Scotland's Rural College who introduces him to a host of cunning carbon-cutting ideas- from seaweed in the feed and gas masks for cows to barns that can convert methane into energy to power the farm. Tom is joined by Tamsin Edwards of King's College, London to calculate just how much difference these ideas might make to our warming Earth. Are those the best answers or should we all be persuaded to cut our meat consumption? Producer: Alasdair Cross Researcher: Sarah Goodman Produced in conjunction with the Royal Geographical Society. Particular thanks for this episode to Professor Vincent Gauci of University of Birmingham and to Dr Michelle Cain of Cranfield University.

This is part three of a three part series on pig behavior with Dr. Simon Turner (Senior Researcher in Animal Behavior at Scotland's Rural College), Dr. Isaac Huerta (PIC Technical Services Manager), Dr. Justin Holl (PIC Geneticist), and Nat Stas (PIC Technical Services Manager). The group looks at technologies for pig behavior and address questions about pig behavior. At PIC, our goal is to make our customers the most successful pig producers by providing them with the best genetics. We know our business success depends on your's. Thanks for listening to 'The Squeal', PIC's swine management podcast, featuring in-depth conversations on topics that matter to you. PIC is the global leader in swine genetics. Whether you're tuning in for the first time or you're a long-time listener, take a second to subscribe to The Squeal. It's the easiest way to stay up to date with the latest podcast episodes. Just find the “subscribe” or “follow” button wherever you listen to podcasts. Already a subscriber? Visit your phone settings and turn notifications on so you never miss an episode.

This is part two of a three part series on pig behavior with Dr. Simon Turner (Senior Researcher in Animal Behavior at Scotland's Rural College), Dr. Isaac Huerta (PIC Technical Services Manager), Dr. Justin Holl (PIC Geneticist), and Nat Stas (PIC Technical Services Manager). This episode focuses on understanding the causes of non-positive pig behaviors. At PIC, our goal is to make our customers the most successful pig producers by providing them with the best genetics. We know our business success depends on your's. Thanks for listening to 'The Squeal', PIC's swine management podcast, featuring in-depth conversations on topics that matter to you. PIC is the global leader in swine genetics. Whether you're tuning in for the first time or you're a long-time listener, take a second to subscribe to The Squeal. It's the easiest way to stay up to date with the latest podcast episodes. Just find the “subscribe” or “follow” button wherever you listen to podcasts. Already a subscriber? Visit your phone settings and turn notifications on so you never miss an episode.

This is part one of a three part series on pig behavior with Dr. Simon Turner (Senior Researcher in Animal Behavior at Scotland's Rural College), Dr. Isaac Huerta (PIC Technical Services Manager), Dr. Justin Holl (PIC Geneticist), and Nat Stas (PIC Technical Services Manager). This episode focuses on understanding what normal behavior looks like and comparing it to abnormal behaviors plus how to spot them. At PIC, our goal is to make our customers the most successful pig producers by providing them with the best genetics. We know our business success depends on your's. Thanks for listening to 'The Squeal', PIC's swine management podcast, featuring in-depth conversations on topics that matter to you. PIC is the global leader in swine genetics. Whether you're tuning in for the first time or you're a long-time listener, take a second to subscribe to The Squeal. It's the easiest way to stay up to date with the latest podcast episodes. Just find the “subscribe” or “follow” button wherever you listen to podcasts. Already a subscriber? Visit your phone settings and turn notifications on so you never miss an episode.

Our FMD Risk Assessment Specialist Dr. Bouda Ahmadi spoke with Dr Gareth Salmon at the FAO HQ in February. They discussed the new website called livestockdata.org that has been launched in May 2020 by The Livestock Data for Decisions (LD4D) Community of Practice. The website aligns with the LD4D's objective to drive informed livestock decision-making through better use of existing data and analyses, and will be a source to access livestock evidence and data. Dr Salmon works for Supporting Evidence Based Interventions (SEBI), which is based at the University of Edinburgh. Previously to that, he completed a PhD at Scotland's Rural College and The University of Edinburgh. He modelled the productivity improvement potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from smallholder dairy production systems and considered the economic and social constraints to improvements. Dr. Bouda Ahmadi is an FMD Risk Assessment Specialist and an Animal Health Socioeconomics expert. Bouda is working across the EuFMD Pillar II and Pillar III Work Programme.

Dr. Cathy Dwyer is Team Leader and a Professor of Animal Behaviour and Welfare at Scotland's Rural College. She received her PhD from the Royal Veterinary College in London before joining the Animal Behaviour and Welfare Team at Scotland's Rural College. Cathy is with us today to tell us all about her journey through life and science.