The problem is that the Government only looks as far a head as a couple of months , it doesn't value agriculture because it's agender is they can import all the food from abroad and let the marginal land in the countryside rewild as farmers leave the land , their agender has no interest or regard in how many days uk has self sufficient food stocks or any long term implications of that , as they only look at any short term political goals , which atm is the environment over home grown food suppliesThis ELMS lark is a complete load of bullsh!t that should be totally ignored, all the governments high handed talk of carbon neutral by any date is totally dependent on UK farmers signing up to this farce, it is only the UK farmers that can make any positive contribution to the planet as they are now in fact already doing.
Big business like BA, so called green energy suppliers & all the other charlatans buy a couple of hundred acres plant a few thousand tree & hey presto magically they are carbon neutral, what about the other 99.999 per cent of UK land that we farm, how come we are not carbon neutral with virtually all of the UK being farmed.
I notice this morning Bozo has bunged the doctors on £100,000 a year plus another £250 million do do the job they are already paid to do for three or if you're lucky 4 days a week, these people have not invested £100s of thousands of pounds setting up their business, they do not work 7 days a week to keep the country fed & yet a quarter of a billion £s can be found just like that!
As I say farmers should tell the government in no uncertain terms that unless farmers get a fair deal they should shove their ELMS somewhere where it hurts!