Harking back

I'm not a farmer but having grown up in rural Perthshire I have seen the agricultural make-up of the area go through some striking transformations in quite a short time. This letter although printed a while back (31st March 2004) in the sterling Dundee Courier is a real gem and is no less informative on a subject that seems to be wildly misunderstood, sometimes deliberately so. Dealing as it does in grand themes it does not bore the general reader to a standstill arguing on some seemingly irrelevant minutiae of EU agricultural policy.
More recently (28th June 2005)Mr Henderson delivered another informative missive, this time responding to an Editorial piece in the same paper.