Farming has received a lot of attention in recent years as the UK Climate Change Committee, which advises the government on climate policy, believes that agriculture is one of the industries which will still have ‘residual emissions’ in 2050. This means it will still be emitting greenhouse gases which will have to be offset elsewhere.
At the same time, there has also been a huge change in how different farming practices have been encouraged or discouraged by the government. Before Brexit, subsidies were paid by the European Union to farmers to produce food. After Brexit, however, there has been a change in focus to paying farmers to produce ‘public goods’, which are things that society benefits from but which the farmers don’t directly receive any payment for.
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