>>2819157No. Subsidies only apply for farmers with more than 5 hectares. Subsidies are only for super specific crops like rapeseed or being subsidised to NOT farm for climate reasons. You will also be hounded with paperwork. I have 14 chickens and the British government ran an extended media campaign to tell people like me that we better register or we could face a fine of up to £5000. Britain has one of the freest chicken regimes in the whole of Europe btw. You don't need a LICENSE like or Iceland. The state can also cull your flocks and herds on a whim and unlike America and South Africa (where they still brand cattle to stop drug addicts cattle rustling and using the proceeds to buy drugs) they're actually pretty good at tracking livestock so it's very hard to hide.
In countries like Poland and parts of ireland (ireland still has a large number of "unmodernised" farms - by which they mean peasant smallholders with a smaller make of tractor) many agricultural holdings are below 5 hectares so those farmers get NOTHING from the EU but all the regulations.
Also in corrupt regions like southern Italy the mafia strongarms people into giving them the ownership of land so they can just sit on it and claim subsidies.
Very glad we left the EU. You can literally see the change for the better in the landscape. The valley where I live now grows actual decent crops for local consumption instead of mountains of oilseed rape to be exported and meet quotas in Brussels. Still pretty shit for the farms that became reliant on subsidies though, but I think we're over the initial shock. I should note that British environmental agricultural subsidies generally only apply to estates over 500 acres so realistically this is a Fabian law that looks to reward land trusts under semi-public management and not a farm subsidy as such.
