The End of British Farming
Andrew O’Hagan: British farming, 22 March 2001
“... Farming became the Second Front, and the ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign extended from public parks to private allotments.With the war at sea British food imports dropped by half while the total area of domestic crops increased by 63 per cent: production of some vegetables, such as potatoes, doubled. Farmers in the 1930s had complained that their efforts ... ”