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Significantly, the group has parted company with a hostile NFU by questioning the need for the EU subsidy system which channels around �5bn annually to the industry - making it by far the most heavily supported in the country.

John Turner, one of the founders, who runs a 250-acre organic dairy and arable farm near Stamford, Lincolnshire, said he left the NFU two years ago in protest at its failure to represent farmers on smaller holdings. "The way things are going they will be presiding over the wholesale destruction of UK agriculture."