Last month we took a world tour of farmer protests, discussing the causes and the catalysts. This month, we look at the third “c” of the protests… conspiracy.
In the latter part of February, there was a series of protests in Wales against the latest government proposals for agricultural funding. The least popular of these was a requirement to return 10 per cent of farmland to woodland and manage a further 10 per cent as “habitat”— a blunt instrument of a policy proposal where a scalpel is required.