I am an electrician. Many of the tasks I have to carry out require me to be able to prove my competence in court. Arround farms there are many dangers from chemicals, machinery, slury and animals, it seems almost ludicrous that those in charge need no qualifications at all. They may well have been farming for years but running things on a "custom and practice" basis has too often been the road to disaster. After the debachle of the recent foot and mouth pantomime, where many farmers made their bigest profit in years and hotels, shops, B&B's and other toursist busineses went bust, Britain must decide how many farms and farmers are now unfit and redundant. cheers