by becca | Feb 28, 2019 | JCM News
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...
by becca | Feb 28, 2019 | JCM News
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...
by becca | Jan 21, 2019 | JCM News
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...
by becca | Jan 14, 2019 | JCM News
The best way for the UK government to secure a prosperous trading future for its farmers was a moot point for the four speakers in the Oxford Farming Conference’s ‘World beyond Brexit’ session. Farming minister George Eustice focused on the “lucrative”...
by becca | Dec 10, 2018 | JCM News
I’m writing this from Ashburton, which is an agricultural town in the South Island of New Zealand. It’s a fitting time to be in the country that famously lost its farm support payments in the 1980s, given the changes that we face to our own farm subsidies post-Brexit....