"David G. Bell" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, in article
"Jim Webster" wrote:


I think the FMD compensation will have had a big effect. It turned
some
farmers from being cash-poor to being cash-rich, and that gave them a
chance to change. If they stayed in farming they could avoid some of
the usual complications of changing direction (as you were
experiencing)
and the cash went to other farmers.

Other EU countries set up schemes to help farmers retire, but the
British government did not. I wonder if FMD had some of the same
effect.

it as had a big effect in that regard and it remains to be seen what the
long term effects are. I am genuinely at a loss to predict what is
happening.

--
Jim Webster

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