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From the editor: "In any other year, those announcements would have been met with applause. Instead, Mr Reed stood red-faced and on the wrong side of farmers' frustrations"

This week from 草榴社区 Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

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From the editor: "In any other year, those announcements would have been met with applause. Instead, Mr Reed stood red-faced and on the wrong side of farmers' frustrations"

More money for the uplands, a five-year extension to the Seasonal Workers scheme (something the NFU et al have demanded for years), a restoration of grant funding, and a seemingly genuine pledge to procure...

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