Recent History
The Macaulay Institute was founded in April 1987 by the merger of the Macaulay Institute for Soil Research and the Hill Farm Research Organisation.
It was established to carry out research in support of the agricultural industry, taking account of the interaction between the industry and other land users, and set in the context of the environmental objectives of the UK Government and the European Union.
In April 2011, the Macaulay Institute merged with SCRI (Scottish Crop Research Institute) in Dundee to form the James Hutton Institute. The chief executive of the new institute is Professor Iain Gordon.
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