Examine with examples how Government policies can
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The reforms also encouraged farmers to diversify and use their land for other purposes. Some farmers went into the leisure and recreation industry with golf, stables, paint-balling and quad biking. Others stayed with farming, but tried other methods, such as venison, llamas or fish farming.
In 1998, the BSE crisis hit the UK, beef exports were banned and beef-on-the-bone was banned, with public confidence in the meat very low. The price of beef in 1996 had been £700, this had plummeted to £450 in 1998. Clive Swann's farm in Mold, suffered a large overdraft of £100,000 with a loss of £50,000 in 1998 alone. The farm was struggling so badly that a labour force of 2 other contract labourers had to be released, as Clive Swann could not afford the wages. Instead, his wife gave up her job to help him and the situation was at such a crisis point that together they received less than the minimum wage, and so relied upon family credit. Anger brewed amongst the farmers as the UK government did not apply for the full EU compensation package. Whilst £980 million was ...
