29/03/2022
Landowners are having to rip out orchards due to a lack of market for their apples.
People are critisising these landowners because they prefer seeing orchards than fields of potatoes.
As a landowner you’d have the following choice:
A)leave as it is but make a loss on that land just to keep the environmentalists happy
B)Let to a local farmer for arable crops - make a bit of money
C)let to a local farmer for potatoes(potato ground is more desirable) - make a decent income
D)sell the land for housing - live comfortably.
I know what I’d do, what would you? We need to support the farmers not be against them, without them there would be less countryside.
Start buying British apples or risk losing all orchards forever
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