LETTERS

REAL GROWTH

All the talk of Environmental Land Management Schemes (ELMS) and Government payments rewarding “farming for nature” (We can lead the way, 20 October 2021) made a lot of sense to me, especially as during my lifetime I have witnessed the mass destruction of habitat and hedgerows.

However, recent political events in Ukraine have reminded me of a poem my primary school class had to recite at the harvest festival in the 1940s. My