Macsharry plan

EC members are already reacting informally to the MacSharry plan.

That the MacSharry Plan for agricultural reform are the only proposals the Commission can produce hardly bodes well.

All of them say that the MacSharry plans would be devastating for farmers in every part of the United Kingdom.

But in agriculture, because the climate, crops and farm sizes are different, we should think in terms of national variations of the MacSharry plan - a national and regional flavour to any reforms.