HILL FARMING
March 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNLIFE isn't going to get any easier for hill and mountain farmers if Dr Franz Fischler, EU farm commissioner, has his way. He wants to "de-couple" payments from production for farmers generally and introduce direct fixed supports based on farm size, past output and acceptance of environmental and other standards. Both Britain's DEFRA and the NFU like this approach but there's no doubt it signals some fraught times ahead for those who toil in the so-called "less favoured areas."Dr David Oglethorpe, head of land economy at the Scottish Agricultural ...
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