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Search Results Farming subsidies in the UK | Economics Help https://www.economicshelp.org › Economics help blog › agriculture 27 Jul 2016 - One potential benefit of leaving the EU is the opportunity to radically change how we spend agricultural subsidies. ... Farming subsidies in the UK ... Also, if the EU had shifted the budget of CAP ...
So what I await to see is how this Conservative government, that no doubt gets lots of support in all sorts of ways from rich landowners/the land owning aristocracy, how it will take away the subsidies (tax payers' money) from these rich and powerful people. How will the Tories square that particular circle? And as for penalising them for not growing food. Well!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I would agree totally that the way farmers (especially 'farmers') are given subsidies (via CAP) has a lot that I do not agree with. Am I correct in believing that via CAP, farmers and 'farmers' are given subsidies based on the amount of land they have and not on what they produce from it? Thus very rich landowners get a big top up even if the land they own is not in agricultural use? So ...
They may now have a thriving farming industry but that wasn't achived without a lot of bankruptcies along the way. But are we comparing like (NZ) with like (UK)? That happened in NZ back in 1984 I believe. We are talking United Kingdom in 2018. The UK has a population 14 X greater than NZ. More information to be found here ...
Oh and then of course there is the matter of farming subsidies. What happens to the UK farming industry if, on top of what I have outlined above, subsidies go or are considerably reduced.
So..........if food imports from EU countries end up costing more (import tariffs) and exports to the EU of food produce by UK farmers end up costing more (export tariffs) then 1) where will we get our food from? and 2) how will all this affect the UK farming industry? Some answers to (1) Elsewhere in the world. I have read that because elsewhere in the world doesn't necessarily have ...
and this makes for an interesting read http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39030755 Here is an extract: "We import more than we export of all types of food. The UK imported a whopping £38.5bn worth of food, feed and drink in 2015 , the most recent official statistics available. The number dwarfs the £18bn worth of food we exported that year. In fact, just half of the food ...
I typed in Where Does Asda Get Its Milk From ? and got this All ASDA fresh milk now carrying Arla farmer-owned marque | Arla UK https://www.arlafoods.co.uk › Overview › News & Press › Archive News 30 Oct 2015 - We will continue to work with ASDA and other retailers to get the farmer-owned message on a wide range of dairy products. ” ASDA ...
So, when I did a search using the words UK Farming Industry post Brexit this is what came up: UK farmers risk seeing incomes halve after Brexit - Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/cd9323b8-ad0e-11e7-beba-5521c713abf4 9 Oct 2017 - Agricultural incomes could halve after Brexit unless the UK strikes a free-trade agreement with the EU, according to a ...
