Growing up on a farm, you take for granted what people do and don’t know about the agricultural industry – I knew all about birth (well the cow and sheep version), what bread is made from, why cows have tags and most importantly why you should never speak when the...
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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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
LEAF Open Farm Sunday is Best Public Access for Public Goods says Chief Executive
This Rock and Roll Farmer has a lot of fans, so there's competition, but we are big fans and we love Will Evan's latest podcast with LEAF Chief Caroline Drummond. Never did we know she was the lead singer in a rock and roll band, but we did know her passion for the...









