2021

• Davy McCracken and John Holland speaking to English upland farmers on Carbon for farming – Farming in the Uplands: Opportunities for carbon and biodiversity. 29^th November 2021
• Davy McCracken speaking at a Farm Advisory Service event on Biodiversity and alternative food products. 23^rd November 2021
• In the context of COP26, Davy McCracken explains some of the implications of climate change for Scotland’s uplands
• Murphy, S., Thomson, S. & McCracken, D. 2021. COP26: A changing policy climate (webinar). Farm Advisory Service, 4^th October 2021
• Stocker, P., Pawsey, J., Morgan, H. & McCracken, D. 2021. NSA Breakfast Club – Is shabby the new chic? An exploration of nature recovery on sheep farms. National Sheep Association, 1^st September 2021
• McCracken, D. 2021. Rewilding a Highland Farm. Northwoods Rewilding Network Webinar, 27^th May 2021
• Atterton, J., McCracken, D., Thomson, S., Fischer-Moller, M., Glass, J. & McMorran, R. 2021. Rural Policy: the landscape post-Brexit and Scottish elections (podcast). SRUC Rural Policy Centre, 27^th May 2021
• McCracken, D., Morgan-Davies, C., Lambe, N. & Holland J. 2021 Episode 8: Electronic ID, feed efficiency and biodiversity. Farm Advisory Service TV (FAS TV), 14^th May 2021
• Gauley, G., Morgan-Davies, C., Kenyon, F. & McCracken, D. 2021. Precision solutions to animal health and welfare (podcast). Farm Advisory Service, 17^th April 2021
• Pirie, A. & McCracken, D. 2021. The Thrill of the Hill: research and policy (podcast). Farm Advisory Service, 22^nd January 2021
• McCulloch, C. & McCracken, D. 2021. Supporting agriculture in Scotland post-Brexit (podcast). Farm Advisory Service, 1^st January 2021

2020

• Murphy, S. & McCracken, D. 2020. Climate change in agriculture and rewilding (podcast). Farming for a Better Climate, 3^rd June 2020
• Adlard, S., Langford, F., Murphy, S. & McCracken, D. 2020. Agroforestry in Scotland (podcast). Farm Advisory Service, 3^rd February 2020
• Davy McCracken provided a Keynote Presentation on “High Nature Value (HNV) farming: a rich diversity of systems” at the Diversity session held on Tuesday 17^th November 2020 as part of the Wales Real Food & Farming Conference
• Davy McCracken gave an invited presentation on the upland agricultural and environmental work at SRUC on Tuesday 27^th October 2020 to delegates attending the CIEEM [Professional Body for Ecologists & Environmental Managers] online conference Scottish conference focussed on “Land use in Scotland: changes, challenges and solutions”
• Davy McCracken gave an invited presentation on Monday 14^th September 2020 at the online Environmental Platform Wales conference which has a focus on Resilience in the Welsh uplands. Davy’s presentation was entitled Addressing upland agricultural and environmental challenge in Scotland and focussed on the innovations at Kirkton & Auchtertyre designed to help upland land managers in Scotland achieve Net-Zero by 2045

2019

• A stall at the 2019 Orkney International Science Festival Family Day. (6/9/19) attracted considerable attention and discussion on farming in Orkney, where Orkney’s food comes from and how eating patterns change
• Pop-up/handouts presence at the Great Yorkshire Show
• A wide range of national and international students, farmers and government officials visited SRUC’s upland research farms during 2018/19 to hear and discuss the challenges and opportunities facing upland livestock farmers– a detailed listing can be provided on request. Scotland’s Minister for Rural Economy & Natural Environment paid a bespoke visit to the farms on 26^th March 2019
• Andrew Barnes presented economic modelling data to Defra
• Davy McCracken spoke at the Scottish Land & Estates Spring Conference in Edinburgh on 15^th May 2019, providing the keynote presentation at this conference (focussed on Maximising the Margins)
• Davy McCracken spoke at the NFUS annual conference in Glasgow on Thursday 7th February 2019 on what hill farmers can do specifically to reduce their impacts on climate change
• During winter 2019, funding from this project and other projects held by SRUC to allow three hill farming specific workshops across Scotland (in Dingwall, Lockerbie and Pitlochry) each designed to obtain from farmers/crofters an indication of the specific constraints affecting their own land and what assistance they might require to address those constraints. These workshops were organised in association with National Farmers Union Scotland (NFUS) and Soil Association Scotland

2018

• In October 2018, Davy McCracken spoke at the Irish Uplands Forum Conference entitled “Innovation and Partnerships in the Uplands” on the subject of “Delivering public goods from the Scottish uplands”.

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