I was reassured to read that Rishi Sunak told the NFU conference that he had once milked a cow (Report, 20 February). I once collected eggs for my dad when he had chickens on a smallholding. I was about five, and when I had finished collecting them he told me to “drop them in that [metal] bucket”. I did. So I can say with confidence that helping out with the livestock doesn’t necessarily make you an expert.
Su Hardman
Woodbridge, Suffolk
• You reported that British farmers were planning more tractor protests (15 February), but the Public Order Act 2023 will surely make these “interference with … key national infrastructure”, just as illegal as those of Just Stop Oil. Will we now be seeing mass arrests of farmers, or is the law being applied selectively?
David Bricknell
Plymouth
