I don't blame farmers for taking money. Who wouldn't take extra money? However, I do think it's a slippery slope, and that dependency on government handouts i

I don't blame farmers for taking money. Who wouldn't take extra money? However, I do think it's a slippery slope, and that dependency on government handouts is not the way to run an independent business. What you have is governments using environmental reasons to justify taking this or that action. Ie, "the environment" as envisaged by academia and politics, is a political football. Re the story, and how much money the farmer was getting, I don't know. I simply asked why he didn't have cows out, and he explained about the payments, orchids, etc.