How Brexit could change the face of rural Britain
The government is drawing up a plan to replace the Common Agricultural Policy
IT HAS been a testing year for Britain’s 150,000 or so farmers. A summer heatwave scorched the broccoli and cauliflower crops. Before that, freezing conditions held up sowing, and scythed through the lambing season. On Pant-y-Beiliau farm, in Wales’s Usk Valley, the Trumper family was anticipating a bumper year from their flock of a thousand ewes. In the end they lost about 5% of their newborns to the knackermen. But the extremes of weather are something that Maurice Trumper, born on his farm in the 1920s, has learned to live with. Brexit is different.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “A new furrow”
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