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Pity the Poor Farmer?

One swallow doesn't make a summer, and one bad harvest can no longer be carried by a good one - or so the farmers say. Up to the end of the 1950s everyone thought that the farmer kept his pigs in the Rolls - that both animals and owners were fed with a silver spoon. Why now has the cacophony of the farmyard come to Whitehall? Is the farmers' protest a real one, or are they just joining the bandwagon of those demanding more money? Are there many earning fivepence an hour for a 100-hour week?

English
  • Originally Aired March 4, 1970
  • Network BBC Two
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