by rebecca | Jul 8, 2020 | JCM Blog, JCM News
Seven young farmers’ from across the world share their view on what next for food and farming during a free webinar on Friday 10 July between 14.00 and 16.00 BST. The Road Ahead will travel to Australia, Scotland, the Netherlands, Canada, Argentina and Sweden. Join us...
by rebecca | Mar 8, 2019 | JCM Blog
I have a confession – ever since my early teens I have wanted to be Tom Cruise!! I want to soar through the skies in a fighter jet, doing twists and turns as he did in the film Top Gun. What I didn’t want to be was a women working in the agricultural and rural sector...
by rebecca | Feb 27, 2019 | JCM Blog
It’s February and we’ve (Jane & her husband Mike) travelled 1,185 miles from Aberchirder to Chateaux D’Oex in Switzerland for some late winter skiing. We’re staying in a regional ‘nature park’called Gruyère Pays-d’Enhaut, 90-minutes from Geneva, an area that...
by rebecca | Sep 29, 2018 | JCM Blog
Over 50% of the world population is under 30 years of age with those at school and college never having licked a stamp nor having to wait while their broadband dials-up. In world terms Facebook now has a larger audience than the population of any country, LinkedIn has...
by rebecca | Sep 13, 2018 | JCM Blog
The number of dairy herds in the north east and the north of Scotland is a tale of woe. In the first six months of this year, the Scottish Dairy Cattle Association revealed that we now have just 28 dairy herds in Aberdeenshire (I was surprised there were this many),...
