- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Just like so much, there's more to it of course. Hill farming along with other rural enterprises keeps people on the land, villages viable, etc etc .I think you are going to be disappointed. The pandemic is costing the public purse big time and will continue to do so. Most hill farms from what I have read are nonviable without subsidies. We already know there are planned cuts to subsidies and the current situation is likely to accelerate this trend, so the great hill farming tradition will probably disintegrate further and be replaced by wilderness. Sorry
Any way don't knock it, taking land out of production is going to give you a bigger market share of what is left.
Like the whole business of "supermarket spec" for cattle and thus villifying good native bred cattle, I always think "who says"