Michael Gove: British farmers can take advantage of the opportunities provided by Brexit and continue to export great British produce
Introduction - History tells us science is the future
One of my favourite Radio Four programmes, second only to Farming Today, is The Long View.
Presented by the superbly talented Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland, The Long View asks us to consider current events in their historical context, draws parallels between the controversies of our time and the challenges of our past.
Few professions take a longer view than agriculture. Farmers plan, invest and produce for the long-term. While those of us in Westminster live in a world of hourly Twitter storms and daily news cycles where a week is now a very long time in politics, farming requires the patience and foresight to think in harvests and lifecycles, to see beyond the immediate and scan the far horizon.
Of course, the immediate political question which all of us must wrestle with is Brexit - and more particularly how Britain leaves the European Union in less than three months’ time. And I will address that question head on in a moment.
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