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Article: The farmer's lot has not been a happy one; Chris Upton looks back at the troubles that have ravaged Britain's farmers.
- Article from:
- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- October 21, 1998
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BSE and CJD, drought and flood, TB and salmonella. The furrows on a farmer's brow are often as deep as those in his field, and rarely does a year go by without another line to add.
It's probably inevitable that an industry based on livestock and crops is vulnerable to the vicissitudes of the weather, but economic and political gales can blow just as strongly.
What has changed the equation so radically in recent times is the fact that government and landowner, MP and farmer, no longer walk arm in arm to the ballot box. Whereas once the peasants and labourers ...
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