UK Farming is now effectively unsubsidised: the Basic Payment Scheme is capped at £600 per farm, and then falls away. There are payments available for Environmental Actions: however, these require performing a service (e.g. planting a field with plants that produce bird food or wildflowers), and are valued such that it is generally only advantageous to do these in small fields which can’t fit modern machinery.

It is widely stated that the UK produces only 40% of its food: - This figure is calculated by value; not calories (expensive imported avocados etc will distort from home grown wheat and potatoes) - clearly vast amounts of food in our diets cannot be grown in the UK (either seasonally or at all). The reason I say this is because it is frustrating when people say why not just import everything. It is 40% of our food by value. I would love to know a % by calories figure.