The future of farming
In Scotland, farming is looking to the future. Farmer William Rose, from Midcoul Farms, Inverness, is a third generation farmer; he is one of two major Scottish producers of organic carrots, the other being the Doric-speaking Mitchell brothers at their farm AA Carrots in Morayshire.
Things have been tough for farmers over the last few years because of the triple threat: Brexit, Covid and the Ukraine war. “The effect of Brexit, primarily, has been that it’s very difficult to export carrots,” William says, while Covid “just made things weird”. Then the war in Ukraine pushed the price of fuel and fertiliser “sky high”.