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It absorbs 40% of the EU's budget and is worth 拢3.1 billion a year to the UK's farmers and rural economies. Now the Common Agricultural Policy is undergoing reform. Consultation processes are underway - or about to be - in all four of the devolved governments of the UK, which have to decide how to implement the changes.

In Farming Today This Week, Charlotte Smith tries to demystify some of the detail of the CAP, looking at everything from 'modulation' to 'greening', and asks what it all means for both farmers and taxpayers.

Should more money be taken out of direct payments to farmers, and put instead into rural development? Are environmental schemes getting enough support from the CAP? Or should we just do away with it altogether, and force farmers to stand on their own two feet?

Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Campbell.