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What NZ farms can tell us about life after Brexit
28th May 2020
ARTICLE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED SPRING 2019
The subsidies disappeared all at once – but farming on the bottom of the world is more profitable than ever
The prospect of Britain’s departure from the Europe an Union is creating demand for comparative analyses o understand what life could be like on the outside. It is particularly instructive to compare British farming, which has significant government and EU intervention, with that of New Zealand – which is subsidy-free.
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