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Are they fields of gold? |
Now waving grain, far o’er the plain, delights the weary farmer’ is one of the many ways that Robert Burns described a peaceful scene in rural Scotland.
My great, great, great grandparents would have warmed to that thought, as farming neighbours of Rabbie and his brother.
Fast forward just over two centuries, and something strange has been happening of late in the fields of Scotland. Loud protests, 24-7 vigils, activists uprooting crops and being arrested, reporters rushing for on-the-farm interviews: that’s been the recent reality in Aberdeenshire, Fife and the Black Isle. Arguably, not since the land raids of 19th and early 20th century crofters has there been so much anger and so much police activity in our agricultural areas.
That comparison has a strange reso
