What if Britain really did abandon its farms and leave them to nature?

The Ecologist
Aug 16, 2016, 6:23 am183 pts
The National Farmers Union has been issuing dire warnings that if UK taxpayers do not keep on paying landowners billions of pounds of annual subsidies after Brexit, many will simply give up farming altogether. So, asks CHRISTOPHER SANDOM, how would our countryside change if they followed through on that threat?…

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