Jeremy Lowe

STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY ADVISER

Jeremy joined the NFU regional team in 2011 as a livestock adviser and became county adviser for Staffordshire when the role was first introduced in 2012.

Prior to joining the NFU, Jeremy worked as a farm manager, mostly on dairy farms, and then joined MAFF State Veterinary Service (now the Animal and Plant Health Agency, APHA) in 1996 based in Devon, initially as an animal health officer and then for 10 years as a senior animal health officer. During this time, he gained a wealth of experience dealing with animal diseases such as foot and mouth disease (2001 and 2007), Newcastle disease, avian influenza and bovine TB. During his last two years at what had become the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Jeremy managed a headquarters project, writing farmer-focussed guidance, providing comprehensive information on bovine TB and animal by-products.

Away from the ‘day job’, Jeremy is a licensed lay minister (reader) in the Church of England’s Hereford Diocese, an agricultural chaplain and member of Lichfield Diocese’s Community of Chaplains. Jeremy also helped set up the Staffordshire Group of the Farming Community Network in 2016 and is especially interested in supporting the mental health and welfare of the farming community and promoting the positive role the land-based sector can have in mitigating the effects of climate change.