Monogram 2021

Glensaugh farm is home to the James Hutton Institute's Climate-Positive Farming Initiative, which explores a transformational approach to farming to achieve net-zero or even negative carbon emissions, whilst protecting and enhancing the farm’s natural assets and ensuring long term financial sustainability of the farm business.

Glensaugh integrates research and farm management – it is an upland livestock farm in the eastern Grampian foothills of Scotland, just over 1000ha in area, with sheep, cattle and red deer, improved and extensive pastures, moorland, woodland and peatland.

This video, presented by farm manager Donald Barrie, describes the ethos of the pasture management practices at the James Hutton Institute’s Glensaugh research farm, in the context of the Institute's Climate-Positive Farming Initiative.

Glensaugh integrates research and management of livestock, improved and extensive pastures, moorland, woodland and peatland, with the aims of testing and demonstrating transformative ways of managing our land.

Glensaugh is the James Hutton Institute's upland research farm and home of our new Climate-Positive Farming initiative. This video describes our on-farm renewables and plans for a carbon-neutral hub powered by hydrogen and capable of supplying energy to the local community (HydroGlen). HOT NEWS! We have successfully won funding for our HydroGlen feasibility study (https://www.hutton.ac.uk/news/hydrogl...​).

The James Hutton Institute's research farms have long been at the forefront of innovation in land and agricultural practices, trialling and testing new farm methods, livestock and crops. Now, more than ever, they are needed to test and demonstrate transformative ways of managing our land. Visit https://glensaugh.hutton.ac.uk​ for more information on this and other activities at Glensaugh.

Trees and woodlands provide multiple benefits – these include carbon storage, biodiversity, landscape, shelter, wood products, water quality and flood mitigation. This short video introduces the ongoing programme of woodland research and management at the James Hutton Institute's Glensaugh Farm, the home of our Climate-Positive Farming Initiative.

The UK has ambitious goals to increase woodland cover to help progress towards its net-zero targets. Integrating more trees into farming systems will make an important contribution to these goals whilst also giving benefits to many different elements of the farming system. Visit https://glensaugh.hutton.ac.uk for more information on this and other activities at Glensaugh.

Farm manager Donald Barrie describes luing cows and calves at the James Hutton Institute's Glensaugh farm near Laurencekirk, Scotland: these animals are constantly on the move from paddock to paddock in our rotational grazing system. Ewes and lambs have had the best of the grass before the cows were brought in to tidy up. One of two bulling groups, this mob contains only pure Luing cows running with our stock bull Dirnanean Wildfire. The sward is a 2001 sown clover rich ley containing ryegrass, cocksfoot and clover on a gravelly soil. www.hutton.ac.uk