Jamie Jack

Jamie Jack is an agriculture professional and first-generation farmer specialising in low-input and regenerative agriculture, livestock management, and soil health.

Jamie's core skills include regenerative farming principles, pasture management and monitoring, soil health management, and grazing planning and implementation. Jamie’s wider experience includes composting and vermiculture, and landscape enhancement utilising livestock.

Qualifications and experience

• Elaine Ingham Soil Foodweb School Foundation Course (93% attainment), 2022
• Foundations of Holistic Management at FarmEd, 2023
• Studied a HND and Postgraduate Diploma in Agriculture at SRUC, 2017-2021
• Delegate on the SSFF Future Farmer Programme, 2024-25
• Scotland Regional Manager, Pasture for Life
• New entrant native sheep farmer
• Manager, composting enterprise

Jamie's background

As the Scotland Regional Manager at Pasture for Life, Jamie’s main role focuses on facilitating knowledge exchange and training, empowering farmers to develop and enhance pasture-fed and low-input farming systems in Scotland. Jamie leads the Pasture for Life Skills Development Programme (Scotland) and previously delivered the Low-Input Farm Business Performance Programme through the Scottish Government Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Fund. Further expertise includes consultancy services to Scottish estates, focusing on ecological habitat management and adaptive grazing strategies. Jamie has co-delivered feasibility case studies and assisted in implementing grazing planning on numerous farms set on achieving multiple production and ecological outcomes.

Additionally, Jamie manages a composting enterprise part-time, producing Johnson-Su compost and vermicompost for field scale application, and as a training and knowledge exchange opportunity for farmers. Expertise extends to evaluating compost quality, planning and executing application operations, and implementing testing protocols (Albrecht, Haney, leaf tissue sampling, and SAP analysis) to evaluate compost impact, alongside enhancement through livestock grazing.

Prior to these roles, as an Assistant Livestock and Soil Health Manager at Rotmell Farming Ltd., Jamie co-managed livestock and grazing operations, implementation of fencing and water improvements, and monitored soil health. Jamie is proficient in data collection and analysis, project management, budgeting and reporting, and knowledge transfer and exchange. Jamie is familiar with agriculture labor and management, GIS mapping (Google Earth, AgriWebb), and livestock management software (AgriWebb, FarmIT). Jamie is experienced in data set creation and analysis (Excel), weigh head/EID operation, performance monitoring, and technology proficiency.

As a new entrant, Jamie has recently established his own flock of native sheep, through a 5 year SLDT as part of Forestry Land Scotland's FONE initiative, aiming for a low-input production model, and in addition works as an Agriculture Service Contractor, offering services including agricultural labour, fencing installation and maintenance, IT and admin, and general livestock duties.

Jamie completed the Elaine Ingham Soil Foodweb School Foundation Course (93% attainment) in 2022, Foundations of Holistic Management at FarmEd in 2023, studied a HND and Postgraduate Diploma in Agriculture at SRUC from 2017-2021, and was a delegate on the 2024-25 SSFF Future Farmer Programme.