With a background in family arable farming and work for other arable farms, after training as a agricultural technical writer with Mistral Group/Agrafax supporting the public relations and communications needs of arable industry businesses such as Dow AgroSciences (now Corteva) and Dalgety Arable (now Agrii), Martin then spent two years as arable editor with the weekly Farming News.
Over the past 15 years since JMR Agriculture was founded, regular commissions for arable and agronomy articles have come from Farmers Guardian, Arable Farming and Crop Production Magazine (CPM), while background agronomy writing is also undertaken for a number of crop protection companies.