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NGLISH farmers are reeling at the overnight closure of the Westminster government’s flagship agri-environment scheme, the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), there being no certainty it will ever reopen.
With farms minister Daniel Zeichner saying farmers “are not going to be supported by the public purse forever”, is National Farmers’ Union president Tom Bradshaw right to tell his members to prepare for a future without subsidies?