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Subsidy changes I READ with interest your very informative article about a survey of the concerns of farmers and landowners regarding the shift from the EU’s Basic Payment subsidy to our government’s proposal to replace it with the ELM Scheme (D&S Times, Dec 11). Although I sympathise with their anxiety about losing the EU subsidy, there must surely be a realisation that in our market economy they must become more efficient to survive. To rely on aid for their agricultural industry may now be looked on by other industries to be a bit unfair and almost immature. It could be that the industry, in a previous era could possibly have been regarded by some as an ignoble “lame duck” and should be left to fend for itself – as other industries do. ....