Speaking Up for Farmers SIR: It is with great pleasure that I see someone willing at long last to challenge some of the absurd myths relating to agriculture that are now currency in the media and green movements. David Smith’s article (April 2009) is a breath of fresh air for someone whose family has been continuously involved in the industry since we arrived in 1818. On a personal basis I left the land in 1996 after suffering thirteen years of drought, but there are still members of my family involved in the industry at Camden near Sydney (on the same…