British farmers at risk of ploughing lonely furrow

What on earth must farmers in Britain make of the recent utterances by their Minister for Agriculture, Michael Gove?

In a detailed and wide-ranging presentation, Mr Gove has outlined a set of ideas about how food and farming in the UK must step forward in a Brexit context. At the heart of that thesis is an inherent contradiction, which makes his entire premise difficult to stomach.

Mr Gove castigates the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for its supposed inefficiency, and looks forward to designing a UK regulatory structure that cuts down on subsidies for land owners, while boosting the environmental integrity of UK farmland.