Back to the future with Suffolk's farming history: FWAG adviser Stephen Podd finds surprising similarities between farming issues today and 200 years ago

摘要

It is surprising how issues and farming practices which exercise farmers' minds now were being debated 100, or even 200 years ago. One of the important contemporary commentators was Arthur Young from the Bury St Edmunds area, who wrote about farming in the closing decades of the 18th and the opening years of the 19th centuries.