Hard labour
IT’S soon the Harvest Festival season with, Covid permitting, all the hymns about ploughing and scattering. They remind us that however much agriculture changes, our images of the countryside remain stubbornly traditional, bound by the picture books of our childhood. Yet the farms of Beatrix Potter, and even of Kenneth Grahame, are a world away.
Air-conditioned tractors and combines contrast vividly with
