Err, I think not (as always, happy to be corrected though).
Farmers, organic or otherwise, are rewarded for overproduction by the common
agricultural policy, so they overproduce – it’s not like they’re doing so
fabulously that they can wave the money away.
EU subsidies are now based upon acreage alone. They are no longer tied to production.
FWIW this is the official EU brief: The Common Agricultural Policy Explained:
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/publi/capexplained/cap_en.pdf
This is the Wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Agricultural_Policy
And this is the BBC brief: Q&A Common Agricultural Policy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4407792.stm
CAP is negative land value tax at its worst.
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