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117th Visit Report -Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh


In this blog Professor Lorna Dawson, Gateway knowledge broker for Environment and Soil, shares some ...

Report of the 116th Scotia Visit


Regenerative Agriculture – 24th June 2025



An introduction to the visit with informative li ...

115th Visit, June 2025


The James Hutton Institute in Invergowrie has been carrying out research on soft fruit production s ...

Dumfries House Visit 2024

Dumfries House was saved from sale and the dissolution of its contents in 2007 by the dramatic inter ...

Glensaugh and Castleton Visit August 2024


Glensaugh, now part of the James Hutton Institute, has been an upland research farm since 1943, one ...

Inspection of Glensaugh grounds

Tarras Valley visit June 2024

The Tarras Valley largely lies to the east and north of Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway; the Tarra ...

Visits 2024

A number of visits by Scotia Agricultural Club are planned for this year.

Scotia Agricultural Club 52nd AGM

Scotia Agricultural Club 52nd AGM was hosted by SRUC Edinburgh on 18th November 2023. The talk accom ...

Genome (gene) editing in plants

As part of this year's AGM (2022), we were delighted to have a presentation by Professor Lesley Torr ...

The “potential” role for gene editing in livestock

As part of this year's AGM (2022), we were delighted to have a presentation by Eileen Wall (SRUC Edi ...

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