Defra's vision for post-Brexit British agriculture: Germany.
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A new video produced by the UK’s Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is being used to promote the future British farm policy after Brexit, as introduced by last week’s agricultural bill.
Unfortunately, the eagle-eyed Farmers Weekly spotted an image of a slurry spreader on a German farm and an inspector in a Slovenian cattle shed being used to illustrate the future of UK farming.
You could hardly find more committed EU member states.
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I did a bit more research myself, after identifying distinctly Irish weather on a picture of cows in the mist used to communicate the dates of the transition away from direct payments.
The foggy pasture happens to be in Northern Ireland –which is arguably part of the UK – but farm policy is largely devolved, and the bill’s provisions on direct payments apply to England only.
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A new video produced by the UK’s Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is being used to promote the future British farm policy after Brexit, as introduced by last week’s agricultural bill.
Unfortunately, the eagle-eyed Farmers Weekly spotted an image of a slurry spreader on a German farm and an inspector in a Slovenian cattle shed being used to illustrate the future of UK farming.
You could hardly find more committed EU member states.
I did a bit more research myself, after identifying distinctly Irish weather on a picture of cows in the mist used to communicate the dates of the transition away from direct payments.
The foggy pasture happens to be in Northern Ireland –which is arguably part of the UK – but farm policy is largely devolved, and the bill’s provisions on direct payments apply to England only.
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