There is concern that the British family farm is disappearing. Some reports show a loss of 8650 acres of farmland a year in the United Kingdom since 1989 and a possibility of 25% of family farms going bankrupt after Brexit. Remaining farm owners are being forced out by larger factory farms whose practices are more likely to cut corners, polluting the local environment and stripping the soil of nutrients. The Ecological Land Cooperative seeks to change this by helping people get started in "low impact, land based livelihoods."