It would take an essay as long as the op article to do this justice, but the farming community in this area is spectacularly insular, inward looking and isolationist. And I would know I am related to several. A year of Covid, and the new trading arrangements with the EU changing so many things is going to play havoc with mental health. Truly scary times.
My understanding is that the Welsh landscape has changed considerably over the past 800 years, in large part due to logging and sheep, and in its current state it is less resilient than it used to be; more erosion and less diversity of living things. I’m in favor of expanding beaver territory in the USA to change the land similar to what happened in Yellowstone, for example. I don’t have a long family history here, though, which makes it easier to daydream about culture shifts.
I'm genuinely afraid for what the next 12 months will have in store in terms of the rates of things resulting for poor mental health for those in farming professions. It's been a terrible period.