New Farming MinisterDavid Heath gets an education in sheep from the NSA

摘要

Having been quick off the mark asking for a meeting with the new Farming Minister, the NSA was delighted when David Heath in fact asked us to facilitate part of his trip to North West England in early October.As a Liberal Democrat he was not required to attend the Conservative Party Conference and instead spent the week finding out more about sectors of agriculture he did not know - he went to East Anglia to learn about arable and the North West on a missionto know more about upland farming and sheep in particular."I know Somerset and I know dairy farming but I have very little experience in this area," Mr Heath told a roundtable discussion about the uplands. "You tell me and I'll listen."