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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 3349728" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>Free trade deals with non-EU countries? Ones where agricultural products are likely to be allowed into the UK tariff free in return for the City of London getting access to the other country's markets for financial products and services etc? Farming is a tiny part of the UK economy - if the price of access for services is cheap imported food then that will be seen as a win/win situation - open access for one of our major export areas, and cheap food for the public.</p><p></p><p>Post 2020 farming could be looking at no subsidies and lower output prices due to cheaper foreign import competition. Whether that double whammy comes to pass is anyone's guess, but its got to be considered a possibility. We are in uncharted territory - the general direction of farming policy has been largely the same since 1939 (namely subsidising farmers for one thing or another, initially food production, then latterly more for environmental/social reasons) and has been out of the hands of UK politicians since 1972. Now all the bets are off, everything is up for changes to be made. Nothing can be considered completely impossible. So making a major investment decision to go into farming in the next 5 years or so has to be taking a real leap into the dark. Literally no-one knows what UK farming policy will be in 2020 and beyond. Even the people who will be making the decisions don't know at the moment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 3349728, member: 818"] Free trade deals with non-EU countries? Ones where agricultural products are likely to be allowed into the UK tariff free in return for the City of London getting access to the other country's markets for financial products and services etc? Farming is a tiny part of the UK economy - if the price of access for services is cheap imported food then that will be seen as a win/win situation - open access for one of our major export areas, and cheap food for the public. Post 2020 farming could be looking at no subsidies and lower output prices due to cheaper foreign import competition. Whether that double whammy comes to pass is anyone's guess, but its got to be considered a possibility. We are in uncharted territory - the general direction of farming policy has been largely the same since 1939 (namely subsidising farmers for one thing or another, initially food production, then latterly more for environmental/social reasons) and has been out of the hands of UK politicians since 1972. Now all the bets are off, everything is up for changes to be made. Nothing can be considered completely impossible. So making a major investment decision to go into farming in the next 5 years or so has to be taking a real leap into the dark. Literally no-one knows what UK farming policy will be in 2020 and beyond. Even the people who will be making the decisions don't know at the moment. [/QUOTE]
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