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4Sight Farming pilot project to drill down into data

4Sight Farming pilot project to drill down into data

At JCM we are excited to be working with a brilliant new benchmarking project for arable farmers. Led by Eric Anderson of Scottish Agronomy, 4Sight Farming looks at the costs of producing a crop from field up and in much greater detail – not just the obvious inputs,...

I wanted to be Tom Cruise, not a woman in agriculture!

I wanted to be Tom Cruise, not a woman in agriculture!

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...

Jane Craigie appointed chair of the IFAJ “Vision 2025” committee

Jane Craigie appointed chair of the IFAJ “Vision 2025” committee

We are delighted to announce our very own Jane Craigie has been appointed chair by the IFAJ Executive Committee for their “Vision 2025” committee which will be responsible for developing a strategic vision and action plan for IFAJ. This is IFAJ’s second visioning...

Protecting the future of rural youth

Protecting the future of rural youth

Rural places have no future without young people. Wherever I travel, the world over, this is a universal truth; when our youngsters leave it’s rare that they return, and if they don’t return, then rural places lose crucial services – schools, health services, sports...

Open Farm Sunday – the new Rock & Roll

Open Farm Sunday – the new Rock & Roll

Will Evans is a Welsh farmer. A couple of years ago he started a podcast called Rock & Roll Farming, he did it because no-one else was telling the farming industry’s story from a farmer’s perspective. He interviews a different person every week and it’s always...

A holiday isn’t a holiday without some farming

A holiday isn’t a holiday without some farming

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...

Search is on for Scotland’s next Agritourism Monitor Farmers

Search is on for Scotland’s next Agritourism Monitor Farmers

Jane Craigie Marketing is delighted to be involved in the new Agritourism Monitor Farm Programme, supporting in event management and communications. Anyone with an interest in farming, rural tourism and food and drink is invited to come to the launch event for the new...

Proud to be part of The Oxford Farming Conference

Proud to be part of The Oxford Farming Conference

One of our busiest press events of the year is the Oxford Farming Conference, with 80 members of the press attending this year between television news, broadsheets and the agricultural media. The press room, where the conference is streamed, is always a great buzz of...