EU is chucking subsidies to farmers to (among other things) spend on this kind of stuff all the time, around here it's not uncommon to see totally unproductive

EU is chucking subsidies to farmers to (among other things) spend on this kind of stuff all the time, around here it's not uncommon to see totally unproductive small farms with hundreds of thousands in tractors and machinery. It's like social spending to keep people living in rural areas.