UK FARMERS EYEING CANADIAN FARMLAND

It is not surprising that farmers are not yet fleeing Britain’s rolling meadows en mass.  But the financial incentives of leaving the U.K. are likely to be large, and the costs of staying are even larger. For many farmers, it will be a departure forced by loss of income.

Lucia Zitti, an economist for the National Farmers Union, the largest farm research and lobby group in the U.K. says the numbers tell the story: 55 per cent of U.K. farmers’ total income comes from support from the European Union’s Common Agriculture Policy.