Time to pull together and fight for a thriving farming future

摘要

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." There is a Churchill quote for every occasion, and this is mine for 2021.The years since 2016 have been turbulent for agriculture. Culminating in 2020, increasingly bitter street fighting has been waged between a regime seemingly intent on sacrificing domestic production on the battlefield of Brexit, and a broad allied coalition led by farming groups attempting to stop it.Last year, we scored a notable victory around trade standards and, to huge relief, a last-gasp EU/UK trade deal was signed, dodging the torpedo that would have holed many sectors below the waterline.