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However, major landowners and landgrabbers often clear huge areas to use them as pastures or for arable farming.

The couple, who live in Cerne Abbas, struck deals with several owners of permanent pasture land, but were only able to expand their operation after securing grazing of winter cover crops on arable farms.

Mike Wilkins, an arable farmer in Wiltshire, lost about half his wheat.

“We’d like to use some of our arable land for new animal farming, so this would have profound consequences on mixed family farms like this.”

Three years later, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture whisked them off to a quaint fictional village in the west of England, zigzagging through arable fields and well-ordered front gardens.