Unless our urban-elite Governments get a grip, we are walking towards a disaster in our food supply - Yorkshire Post Letters

Almost three decades ago, on April 6. 1996, you published my letter in which I sought to support our beleaguered farming community. At that time, on top of the ongoing battles with Government, bureaucracy and the EU, our farmers were under attack from an army of tunnel visioned and self righteous groups of animal rights activists and the like, trying to shut down all pastoral and dairy farming.

Disastrously, 30 years later, the situation is far worse. Our farmers, one of the most hard working, dedicated and efficient communities in the world, are assailed on all sides and at all levels.

The Chancellor is imposing an inheritance tax, the Government wants land from them for wind farms, solar panels and housing, and they are told what they can and can't grow.

Criminals come at night to rustle animals and steal valuable equipment, and the general public, some of whom seem to think that their food is produced in a large room at the rear of the supermarket, treat their land as a large public park, to roam at will and exercise their dogs.

Just read the contributions of people like your Country Post correspondent Jill Thorp to get the true picture, let alone the searing light shone by Jeremy Clarkson.

Unless our urban-elite Governments get a grip, we are walking towards a disaster in our food supply.