Common Agricultural Policy

I urge the Minister to keep his mind open, because the larger arable farmers would argue that they are already the most productive, that they invest the most in innovation and that they collaborate the most extensively. On that basis, they should be the most susceptible to an argument that, for the largest payments in the country, they should easily be able to prove that they are adding value, not purely on acreage or hectarage but in the productivity and innovation of their farms. I urge the Minister not to close his mind, because that is a sharp and intelligent argument for the good use of CAP payments.