Professor Richard Dewhurst

Email: [email protected]
Website: https://pure.sruc.ac.uk/en/persons/richard-dewhurst

Interest: Nutrition, rumen function and product composition

Coming from a long line of dairy farmers, Richard Dewhurst is Professor of Ruminant Nutrition and Head of the Dairy Research & Innovation Centre at SRUC, based in Dumfries. He joined SRUC in 2013, having previous led ruminant research units in Wales, New Zealand and Ireland. He is the author of over 140 primary research papers, received the Sir John Hammond Memorial Award in 2008 and is past President of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production and British Society of Animal Science. Richard’s research has made significant contributions at the interfaces between nutrition, product composition and rumen function – with a current focus on reducing the GHG emissions intensity of dairy production. Richard is a co-Chair of the Livestock Research Group of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural GHG and he leads the £21.3 million ‘Strength in Places’ project “Digital Dairy Value Chain for South-West Scotland and Cumbria”.​