North Sheep 2009
3 June
Jim Paice MP, Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Rural Affairs opened North Sheep 2009
Jim worked out that the average hill farm in England will be £1000 worse off due to ‘unnecessary’ Government regulation.
"The Government’s plans for cost-sharing and electronic identification of sheep will cost the average hill farm around £1,000, pushing an already marginal enterprise closer to the brink.
"If hill farmers walk away local communities suffer, wildlife suffers and the landscape suffers. Unfortunately we have a Government that is totally out of touch with the realities of farming," he said.