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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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" export...
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....
Last week I attended an International Federation of Agricultural Journalists’ (IFAJ) event in Dublin and had a very fortunate opportunity to hear how the Ireland sees the UK’s departure from Europe, and its impact on Irish agriculture and trade. We were hosted by The...
We are delighted to be working with probably Britain’s favourite farmer (we are just a little biased) to showcase the great work he has been part of to bring the beautiful Albion, a traditional UK cattle breed, back from the brink of extinction. One of the UK’s most...