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The new president of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) in the UK, Minette Batters, has poked fun at Michael Gove, the secretary in charge of agriculture, over his post-Brexit plan for farming.
“Health and Harmony”, is apparently a title Gove chose himself, but Batters told a crowd at the Hay Festival held in Wales it lacked originality – “I did point out to him that it is a beauty salon in Essex.”
The first female president in the NFU’s 110-year history, Batters said farmers were bemused by the plan, which seemed to focus more on the environment and less on food, which was a “a glaring oversight”.
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