We have an absolute moral obligation to steward the natural environment that we live in, and to ensure a good living for the people who look after the land.
In the 20th century farming pulled off a miracle of productivity, generating huge yields to feed our growing urban population.
The glory of Wiltshire is its antiquity, the beauty of its landscape and the old-fashioned charm of its villages and market towns. But as the ancient monuments and the settlements show, this tranquil landscape has been used by human beings - farmed, worshipped, lived in - for all these long years.