Sadly Mel you seem to have preponderance of the mindless adherents to the Sarah Slade policy of access and the understandable spin off from continued negative editorials in the CLA's monthly Land and Business,
As a young NFU delegate to The Shropshire County Executive of the National Farmers Union I proposed a motion to form a joint discussion group on access nearly 50 years ago. Despite it nearly being laughed out of the room on proposal, I carried the motion, it was accepted at NFU HQ and even received the support of the CLA, sadly the Ramblers dismissed it out of hand.
Just for the record I am basing my character on the outcome of that proposal having been successful and there being some farmers with an educated knowledge of the structure of the access network and the strategies that could have been introduced.