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Season update: warmer weather prompts crop growth

Season update: warmer weather prompts crop growth

Across the country a combination of sunshine and warmer temperatures has prompted rapid crop growth and reports are coming in of mounting disease pressure. While nutrients are currently top of the to-do list, many growers are starting to think about fungicide...

Our client commitment

Our client commitment

We work with our clients for the long term and build relationships based on trust, integrity and kindness. We like to foster client relationships that encourage feedback, honesty is important to us. We undertake regular reviews with clients and like to work as an...

Farmers need a fairer position in food supply chain

Farmers need a fairer position in food supply chain

At the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) last week, we launched a report on the role of supply chains in achieving responsible food production on farms.  It is a dry read, but I’d urge anyone involved in producing or supplying food to read it, and to share it, because...

Rural spending needed in the hands of communities

Rural spending needed in the hands of communities

In a disastrous start to the new Prime Minister’s time in office, the £45 billion in tax cuts announced in the ‘mini budget’ has dominated the media, and deeply concerned the financial and pension markets, seeing sterling drop to a 37-year low to $1.03. The media has...

Farmers earning from YouTube

Farmers earning from YouTube

In just one month Olly Harrison, a farmer from Merseyside, earned £3,500 from YouTube. Olly started posting videos on the social media platform early in the pandemic, initially to entertain children, he now has 48,000 subscribers who watch his daily broadcasts which...

Claire Taylor awarded Nuffield Scholarship for 2023

Claire Taylor awarded Nuffield Scholarship for 2023

Claire Taylor is an agricultural communications specialist who works for JCM, with over a decade of experience working across TV, radio and print, as a reporter and producer. She has recently been awarded a Nuffield Scholarship for 2023 and in JCM’s latest blog, we...

Faroe Islands’ Wild west farming

Faroe Islands’ Wild west farming

There’s an archipelago of 18 islands located between Shetland and Iceland that’s home to just 54,000 people. I visited these islands - the Faroes – a few weeks ago to learn more about its fishery and agricultural sectors. The similarities to Scotland’s islands were...

P&J column – Jane Craigie, July

P&J column – Jane Craigie, July

As I write this, I’m sitting in rural Denmark at the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists’ Congress. In many ways the Danish landscape is similar to much of Scotland; farmers are dominantly growing spring barley, oats, as well as lots of grass and...

Rebecca Dawes to join JCM as a director

Rebecca Dawes to join JCM as a director

Jane Craigie Marketing (JCM) is excited to announce that Rebecca Dawes will join the company’s founder, Jane Craigie, as a director and shareholder of the business.