The longed-for transformation of English farming isn’t happening
The green revolution that failed
“There’s been lots and lots of chat about it, and now it’s happening,” says Nic Renison, a livestock farmer in Cumbria. What has happened is that agricultural subsidies in England have been pruned hard enough that Ms Renison and others are seeing the effect on their bank statements. Puzzlingly, though, something more profound is not happening. The wholesale transformation of farming, which the government is trying to achieve through the subsidy cuts and other reforms, appears to have gone awry.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The green revolution that failed”
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