It has not been a great start to the year for farmers, and not only in South Africa.
Apart from their inflation and interest rate woes, farmers in Europe and the UK are angry with their governments about a rash of new environmental regulations affecting their operations, increased taxes, subsidy cuts and bans on pesticides.
British farmers and their families are in a state of deep depression about the future. A recent article in the newspaper, headlined ‘Farming is a dirty word now’, makes for disturbing reading. ().