ABSTRACT
If policy was similar in both wars, the geographical results were less so. In the first war, significant changes in the tillage area were confined to the North and West of England, Wales and the South-west of Scotland (see Map 1.8). This reflects the previously low proportion of tillage in these predominantly grassland regions, and the difficulties which farmers in the arable counties of the South and East of England experienced in finding labour, machinery, and fertilizers. In the second war these areas also extended their tillage substantially, but were joined by a large belt of Midland counties and some southern counties (Map 1.9). Clearly, the impact of the second war was much more universal, as well as more substantial.
