A multi-million pound European-wide project to improve the conditions of egg-laying chickens is launched today (Friday 4 October), to coincide with World Animal Day.

Students and animals at SRUC in Aberdeen are celebrating the opening of a new £350,000 home for creatures – great and small – ahead of World Animal Day tomorrow (4 October).

The founding partners of a global livestock research partnership, including SRUC, have signed a collaborative framework agreement to underpin its future for the next five years.

Scottish scientists are leading an international research project to find new ways of feeding and breeding sheep to reduce their impact on the environment.

Real life agricultural data, providing a snapshot of farm life, has been used to create a learning resource for schools.