From the editor: Sheer insanity to believe farming is not critically important to UK

WHEN Minette Batters stood on the NFU conference platform last week and declared that throwing our world leading welfare standards on the funeral pyre of global trade would be 鈥檓orally bankrupt鈥� and 鈥檌nsane鈥�, she meant it as an admonishing challenge to Government, not as something to aspire to in wider policy construction.

Ben Briggs

Ben Briggs is the group publisher and editor in chief of Agriconnect, overseeing the media business and titles such as Farmers Guardian, Dairy Farmer and Arable Farming.

06 March 2020 鈥� 2 min read

When Minette Batters stood on the NFU conference platform last week and declared that throwing our world leading welfare standards on the funeral pyre of global trade would be 'morally bankrupt' and 'insane',...

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