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From the editor: Money for the uplands has been lost en route to the summit

When the UK nations started formulating their own farming policies in wake of leaving the EU, there was much talk of ’pushing money up the hill’; the insinuation being that those in the uplands would be properly rewarded for their role in managing the environment at a landscape scale.

Ben Briggs
Ben Briggs is the group publisher and editor in chief of Agriconnect, overseeing the media business and titles such as Farmers Guardian, Dairy Farmer and Arable Farming.
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From the editor: Money for the uplands has been lost en route to the summit

When the UK nations started formulating their own farming policies in wake of leaving the EU, there was much talk of 'pushing money up the hill'; the insinuation being that those in the uplands would be...

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