Your taxpayer's poonds at work

[chickenfeet]

In case anybody still doubts just how absurd agricultural subsidies are:

John Dodd, the multimillionaire owner of the Glenogil shooting estate, in Angus, Tayside, has had his farming subsidy cut by £107,000 by the Scottish executive because of suspicions that the discovered pesticides were used against birds of prey on his land.

Over the past three years Dodd had received £829,664 in single farm payment subsidies for his farm at Glenogil.

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[f4f3.livejournal.com]

No doubt he's bemoaning the weather right now.

[unblinkered.livejournal.com]

My mother did the sums to see what subsidies and other incomes Irish farmers get a little while back, and between grants, subsidies, off-farm job and other bits and bobs only (I think) 8% of their total income actually came from the farm itself!