Again just another bitter accusation. Show me on teddy bear where the farmer hurt you.
All of the things I mentioned are common knowledge. I'm not even saying anything controversial.
Farmers
are in favour of culling multiple species of wild animals because of the
suspicion that it spreads diseases to cattle. Despite a complete lack of scientific consensus that it would make any difference. They
do kill wildlife for a whole variety of reasons, including so-called "sport".
They
are against all reintroductions of extinct British species. Everything from beavers to birds to prey, lynx, etc - farmers have opposed
all of those proposals. They don't exactly hide that fact. They're quite happy to appear on CountryFile (etc) voicing their disapproval at any scheme that they don't like.
They
do have power - like you said they are often landowners - and they are highly unionised. They (like other big business) continually lobby the government and have the power to influence policy. Especially on the environment, where their lobbying directly influences the government's environment policies.
I'd like to see wolves and lynx reintroduced as well, it would improve the ecosystem and make the outdoors much more interesting.
Sadly neither of those will happen. Natural England has made it quite clear the intend to set the barrier so high, nobody can meet the criteria they demand.
You would literally need to be able to predict the animal's precise movements and behaviour at all times to satisfy them. Also they want scientific papers published to journals; multi-year funding; professional rangers on hand 7 days a week; 24/7 monitoring of all release animals...
And that barely scratches the surface.