by rebecca | Apr 30, 2018 | JCM News
Our Rural Youth Project is continuing to gain momentum, researching the challenges and aspirations of rural youth in the UK and making comparisons with our selected international countries (Australia, Austria, Canada, Sweden and USA). Last week, Rebecca delivered a...
by rebecca | Mar 18, 2018 | JCM News
It is that time of year again when the weather will hopefully break and farmers start to think about how to engage people out on the farm. Whether it is lambing days in the spring, pick-your-own events in the summer or pumpkin patches, planning often starts early. One...
by rebecca | Mar 13, 2018 | JCM News
Just over a year ago I employed a ‘millennial’, the term used to describe anyone born between 1981 and 1996. I was warned that millennials can have short attention spans and a poor work ethic, in my experience, this simply isn’t the case, taking on ‘my’ millennial has...
by rebecca | Mar 6, 2018 | JCM News
The Managing Director of a PR, marketing and communications agency specialising in agriculture and the rural economy has been appointed a trustee of Lantra. Jane Craigie, Managing Director of her own agency, Jane Craigie Marketing, has joined the board of the UK-wide...
by rebecca | Feb 9, 2018 | JCM News
I’m frequently left aghast at how little some people understand or want to understand about our farming industry. You may ask why we should bother communicating what we do or why we do it to society, but if our consumers understand us better, they’ll continue to buy...