Sounds more like the kneejerk reply of the landowner and not the farmer. But a the farming lobby has chosen to take a low profile in this debate the more informed contribution based on fact has failed to surface.
For 20-30 years the farming press has been promoting diversification but the potentially most powerful asset for diversification has been ridiculed by the landowner.
Being all in favour of a bit of Devilish Advocacy, I wonder if the fact that the land RoWs are on is removed from the calculations SFS are based on has been related to the potential earning power RoWs indicate in Natural England's own surveys.
I'm all for questioning the ascendancy of the pheasants profile in the rural hierarchy for the sake of upsetting a few established notions
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if it starts to throw a bit of light into the darker places the CLA want to stay hidden.