Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall
“The more government spends on farming to aid nature, with targets, plans and insistences to farm to aid nature, the worse the effect of farming upon nature is. … European governments have been doing farming for 80 years now, at minimum, and their farming has got worse as time goes on. Oh well, three generations on the land and government’s just continued to make it all worse. Time to agree that the experiment has been tried and it doesn’t work. Government’s just not very good at farming so government should stop doing farming. So, the full New Zealand then. Wholly and entirely abolish the rules, supports, subsidies and interference. Just cancel the entire idea and leave farmers be to work out how best to use their own land. It did, of course, work in New Zealand so it will, of course, work here too.” (11/05/24)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/apparently-government-is-not-very-good-at-doing-something