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Should farm subsidies have to be earned?
Head of CLA says farmers should only get pay-outs if they protect the environment
The Environment Secretary Michael Gove says farm subsidies will have to be earned rather than just handed out in the future. He says the entitlement should depend on what they do for the environment not how much of it they farm.
Ross Murray, the head of Country Land and Business Association says the subsidies payments "should be decreased in the long-term" but that "in the meantime" public farmers who provide resource to the market should be supported.
Today鈥檚 political correspondent Ross Hawkins reports from Suffolk.
(Image: Tractor on a farm, credit: Getty Images)
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