Interesting article below...
Couple of quotes stood out for me
"And cumulatively, the consensus is that many farmers are done. Done with the insistence that food must always be cheaper, done with the debt, done with the effort of pushing a boulder that just keeps getting heavier up a hill that just keeps getting steeper."
"Bring a group of farmers together in a room and their farms swagger in before them, each individual taken by the place and landmarked, shaken and branded with a reset hipbone or a cow-kicked shin."
“It’s in farming’s DNA,” he said. “You’re still not working hard enough. You’re never working hard enough.”
Heather is over here later in the spring doing a number of courses including the FFCC NextGen Regen course.
Nice to see the guardian highlighting something important about farming as opposed to its contributors sticking the shoe in!