"Hamish" wrote in message
...

An Engineer or farmer can be quickly trained in all sorts of low skilled
tasks, as can all the young people that also do these jobs. The problem is
it is difficult to train a Tesco shelf stacker to run a farm or design
high
tech
equipment when the need arises.


Given the figure of 60% (from memory) farming families drawing considerable
proportion of their income from non-agricultural sources, this is probably
going to increase

Jim Webster