DEAR SIR:

Given that senior politicians and the establishment have effectively closed off 4,000 jobs in the peat harvesting business in the midlands on the basis of a very questionable theory of man-made climate change, I would urge farmers to be very wary of any parties which make it a significant part of their manifestos. Without question there also is an element of having a go at the agricultural community with regard to this issue, in a very exaggerated manner and it’s important, in my view, that farmers be very discerning on this when it comes to how they vote on 8 February.