Tributes have been paid to well-known agricultural journalist and former Farmers Guardian news editor Mike Green, who has died.
Mike was brought up on a dairy farm in West Yorkshire and started his career in the advisory service of the West of Scotland Agricultural College (now part of SRUC) in 1979, working mainly with dairy farms in Ayrshire and Lanarkshire.
In 1987 he joined Farmers Weekly as livestock reporter and then moved to Farmers Guardian as news editor in 1991.
He was appointed editor of British Dairying in 2005, where he edited the title until 2022.
Since then, Mike has been working as a freelance journalist and was an active member of the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists until his death.
His friends and colleagues have paid tribute to him. Olivia Cooper, editor of British Dairying and former BGAJ chair, said: “He was such a kind, generous and funny man. He will be greatly missed.”
Jane Craigie of Jane Craigie Marketing said: ” Mike was great company, perpetually curious and a thoroughly lovely man.”
Farmers Guardian reporter Cedric Porter added: “I always respected Mike as a great journalist who was approachable and friendly. A loss to the media, farming and dairy industries.”
Details of Mike’s funeral arrangements will be made in due course. He is survived by his wife Kate and two children Emily and Adam.
Kate said Mike had a long-term illness but passed away comfortably at home and was active until the end.
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