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Andrew Brown in the Mail on Sunday

The new Agriculture Bill could end 300 years of Browns farming their land

The Brown family has tilled the soil in the Welland Valley for more than 300 years, but Walter’s grandson Andrew fears the new Agriculture Bill will mean he is the last.

Mr Brown, 56, says the Bill fails to protect the UK’s world-leading food and welfare standards

And that could be the ‘final nail in the coffin’ for 40,000 family farms which would be replaced by massive US-style feedlots, where tens of thousands of cattle are crammed into pens with poor environmental standards.

We featured Andrew’s video on our social media last week, which attracted the attention of the Mail on Sunday.  Read more about his story here.

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No sunlit uplands for farmers

No sunlit uplands for farmers

Rutland farmer Andrew Brown talks about his farm and what generations of his family have ensured for the community.  The Browns have worked the land for over 300 years, but the new Agriculture Bill may ensure he will be the last.

Farmers make our food. They look after our countryside.  The government should be looking after them.