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Among the complaints raised by British farmers parking their tractors in Whitehall to protest at the Chancellor’s plan to reduce APR (Agricultural Property Relief, the 100%...
Originally published June 2021. I was five years old when my father decided to move to the north of Scotland, to farm at the edge of the world and the edge of the farming...
This article was originally published in September 2018. Part 1 – Complexity and the burden of history With the result of the Brexit vote leading to a long, complex and, to date,...
Farming uses too much land, thanks to wasteful practices and inappropriate incentives. Let’s plant trees and save the world instead Woodland has a most remarkable effect on the...
Global population will soon start to fall, making much farmland redundant The world is heading for demographic change more quickly than many foresee, bringing challenges of...
Farms are peculiar assets. Returns are undeniable – but inaccessible. And subsidies, it seems, only make things worse. Farms are capital-intensive businesses, with land,...