Opinion: We’re facing farm policy anarchy

I travelled to Suffolk to speak to a group of farmers last month. My talk was titled: ‘Hands up, the farmer turkeys who voted for Christmas by voting to leave the EU?’ At this meeting, 10% of the audience (rather sheepishly) owning up to having voted for Brexit. A much larger poll conducted by Farmers Weekly in the lead-up to last year’s In/Out referendum showed that about two-thirds of the 1,600 UK farmers polled intended to vote Out. See also: […]