UK &#8211, Researchers at the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) are to join experts at the University of Edinburgh in a move that will create a centre of excellence in dairy cattle research.

The SAC, which focuses its research on dairy cattle genetics and breeding, is currently located at Langhill Dairy Research Centre, near Edinburgh. In 2001 recording facilities and animals from the genetic lines at Langhill will move to the University of Edinburgh’s Crichton Royal Farm site, near Dumfries, where research is centred around grazing, nutrition, environmental impact and system studies.

The details of the plan are yet to be finalised but Langhill Farm will continue as a dairy farm on a commercial basis.