If we are attempting to encourage tenants to farm in a sustainable and regenerative way for the benefit of the wider environment, that change to the rules of good husbandry is welcome, because it would allow tenants to do so without their being at risk of challenge under a set of bad husbandry rules that were promulgated at the end of the second world war, when the circumstances in society were very different.iiiNet Zero, Energy and Transport Committee, Official Report, 17 December 2024...