What Farmers REALLY Think…
The driving idea behind Just Farmers is to get more diverse farming voices heard in the mainstream media, because I don’t think we hear from enough individual farmers. There are… Read more What Farmers REALLY Think… →
Water Quality: Iowa’s Great Challenge
I recently wrote an article for The Guardian newspaper about nitrate pollution in drinking water in Iowa. I travelled there in May 2019 to meet farmers, community groups, environmentalists, academics and… Read more Water Quality: Iowa’s Great Challenge →
Woolly Watergate: The journalist that took on PETA
When you slap ‘WOOL IS JUST AS CRUEL AS FUR’ on the side of a bus you’d better hope the Farmers Guardian doesn’t see it. Because a journalist has just… Read more Woolly Watergate: The journalist that took on PETA →
The Prince’s Countryside Fund Backs Just Farmers
** Just Farmers awarded £20,000 by the Prince’s Countryside Fund ** ** Fully-funded media training available for nearly 50 farmers ** ** APPLY NOW! ** It’s almost a year… Read more The Prince’s Countryside Fund Backs Just Farmers →
Flame Grilled: Meat in the Media
I’ve received a few messages on Twitter asking for my thoughts on the media coverage of last week’s IPCC Climate Change and Land report – which many farmers have taken… Read more Flame Grilled: Meat in the Media →
God’s Lone Country – a film about rural poverty and isolation
First of all, abandon all preconceptions of what you think poverty should look like. Homeless people in shop doorways. Shoddy blocks of flats punctuating city skylines. Filthy streets strewn with… Read more God’s Lone Country – a film about rural poverty and isolation →
Giving farmers the confidence to speak up for their industry
When trainee radio journalists are learning how to edit audio, a common exercise is to snip the ‘G’ off ‘God Save the Queen’, replace it with a ‘S’ and cut… Read more Giving farmers the confidence to speak up for their industry →
Is a culture of secrecy holding back the UK pig industry?
A couple of years ago I travelled to Denmark to make a film for the BBC about antibiotic resistant bacteria spreading from pigs to people on farms. So-called ‘Pig MRSA’.… Read more Is a culture of secrecy holding back the UK pig industry? →
