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What should the Government be doing to create greater opportunity for UK agriculture? Oxford Farming Conference Poll 2018 Dr. T. J. McKetterick, J. G. Williams, J. A. R. Walters December 2018 Map of Ag What should the Government be doing to create greater opportunity for UK agriculture? 373 farmers in the UK responded to our online poll on seven policy options : - Improving rural broadband connectivity Developing tenancy law to give more incentive to tenant in return for long-term improvements to the land Making payments to farmers for provision of “so called” public goods Maintain the Single Farm Payment Negotiate great trade deals to open new export markets Accelerate research and development Grant funding to encourage farmers with good ideas to scale farm level innovation Three clusters of policy preferences are apparent Using cluster analysis, each respondent was put into one of three groups based on how they allocated their 100 points Balanced Approacher (40%) – Whilst they see Single Farm Payment having a role, it is only in return for end market goods. They spread their points in a nuanced way across the seven policies, while dedicating a few points to policies they wrote themselves Single Farm Payment Maintainers (31%) – Farmers who assigned the majority of their points to the policy “Maintain Single Farm Payment” and gave few points to any other policies Free Marketeers (26%) – They see no place for Single Farm Payment and would prefer the Government to be concentrating on negotiating great trade deals. They also have their own policy ideas which they suggest Government should consider Base 373 Respondents “Get rid of SFP. Negotiate great trade deals and accelerate R+D” “There is a place for public money for public goods, but there needs to be more grant funding for innovation” “Maintain SFP above all else” Distributed responses for each policy initiative by cluster Base 373 Respondents “What should the Government be doing to create greater opportunity for UK agriculture?” Other policy suggestions from the SFP Maintainers “What should the Government be doing to create greater opportunity for UK agriculture?” Base 85 Respondents 15 Points “Major financial marketing support for UK food within UK and the EU” 20 Points “Probably none of the above....but maintaining the SFP would be a good step! Justification for my answer? The UK is a small island and can NEVER compete globally because we can never match the