" If there is a right of way over farmland stick to the path that is the right of way - you have right of way to cross the land not the right of access to do as you seem fit. You certainly do not scare livestock. You demonstrate the ability to quote your rights but refuse to accept that those rights come with attendant obligations and responsibilities."

I totally agree with this. However, farmers do put dangerous animals in fields with public footpaths in the full knowledge they could harm someone.

Also, the land thing. Nah, don't believe it. The land is a common treasury and we should all have access, as long we don't harm or interfere with anything. No harm in walking through ancient woodland owned by some farmer who just leaves it there; before the idiot humans came along and for the immense majority of time no-one owned the land, and they still don't.