the beginning of the end.

[Steve]

We can grow a lot of grain in the UK if we want to, but cheap imports have made livestock more popular. Rising grain prices are encouraging farmers to plant grain again, my neighbour bought some fields in 1980 and planted wheat on them for the first time last year, he got over 3 tons per acre, although that was with chemical assistance - he applied pelleted fertilizer in spring and "sprayed them off" ( basically kills the plant and allows it to dry ) before harvest.