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Last week, it was the news that withdrawal of subsidy might mean the end of many UK farms; and that furious villagers were incensed by the success of Jeremy Clarksons new farm shop in the Cotswolds. Before that, it was the potential impact of the UK-Australian trade deal on small farms. Then there was dog attacks on livestock, the increase in fly-tipping, one-off golden handshakes to older farmers, the impact of staycationers on farmland and potential shifts in the badger-culling strategy. There always seems to be a farming story somewhere.However, while farming is never out of the news, farmers themselves dont often feature. Apart from Kate Humble, Adam Henson and now Jeremy Clarkson, farmers are generally represented either by the constant persuasive figure of NFU president, Minette Batters, or by an old person looking furious beside a gate.So, who is this massively contentious group of individuals, this declining segment of the British workforce In 2013, I moved into a cottage on a small upland farm in Wales and was struck by the mismatch between the public version of farming and the apparent truth of it. There seemed to be so many contradictions.The image of farmers was either of grasping grain barons driving 90-metre combines and skiing all over the subsidy, or of Starkadder types held up with baler twine
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