Jim Carroll - 09 Jan 17 - 07:54 PM

"What a better world it would be all round if there were no such things as tenant farmers." - Steve Shaw

One of the great contradictions of 'progress' has been that, as the small farms have disappeared the whole system of agriculture has become short term and therefore less efficient in the long run.
Even under feudalism, farmers would tend the farms carefully to produce a livelihood for his family and so that they could pass them on to their children."

Absolutely priceless Jim - I suggest you go and look up and study what the Feudal System meant and how it was run - a Feudal farmer had no right to pass anything onto anyone, the land belonged to the Lord of the Manor and he could do with it what he liked when he liked. The Yeoman farmer did not appear until the late 14th Century, and they were normally attendants of a noble family who were rewarded for their services and given land {Normally no less than 100 acres} under freehold, leasehold or copyhold.

As to the efficiency of farming I think that you will find that farming in the UK has become increasingly efficient over the years from the feudal times you seem to have a hankering for up until we joined the EU, or common market, when others started messing about with what became profitable to grow, or not grow on our land. Thankfully those days are about to end.