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EU also sets limits on how much farms can produce. No one cares about yield from unit of land, they care about keeping prices high, so that farmers get adequate profits.

EU will even pay farmers a pension if they retire and stop production.

Funny story, an aging local farmer used raise free-range a small amount of turkeys for the Christmas market. But she stopped because she thought the EU satellites would catch her doing it without permission.

Those turkeys were far better than anything you would buy in a supermarket.

Regulations and centralised governments kill small businesses. Don't worry though, it's for your health (oh and for those cheeky shareholders of big corporations).

The current CAP proposal for the 2020-2027 period basically, thanks to intense lobbying by the agribusiness sector, more or less the same as the current scheme.

If adopted, it will more or less put a stake through the EU Green New Deal that they're supposedly also implementing. :(

They should subsidize by efficiency/yield, soil maintenance, and crop rotation.