I agree about golf club members they are truly awful, the only consolation is that the are just as anti-social to each other, they however learn, as in any tribe, you cannot be totally anti-social to everyone all the time so they build themselves into cliques.
The problem with Farmers, since 2000, they have been very poorly led in the matter of Access. This has coincided with the time that a lot of land amalgamation has gone on and there are fewer real farmers with managerial time on their hands, who are free to think. This has left a vacuum that has been filled by the landowners, whose managerial power in the countryside has risen with land and property values rising so steeply.
Since the CRoW act, which came at the end of, at least a decade, when the landowners suddenly realised they needed a grass roots membership, the real farmer with the time to put into farming politics is giving place to quasi-farmer/landowner, who is the person whose opinions will get carried on access related committees etc.
That why I made the suggestion, perhaps a bit of a joke but walkers writing to the editors of farming periodicals might start to get those truly working in agriculture to question some of the way opinion is being led.