Mr. Clive Carter:

I will be very brief. I echo Mr. McEvoy’s points on the three-crop rule. When it came in, the three-crop rule brought benefits such as more diversity of crops. However, I would like to see the minimum areas doubled. The straw incorporation measure got tillage farmers thinking about the organic matter in their soils and the value of chopping straw in. That still has a value to the tillage farmers and it is part of the programme for CAP, so it is in for the foreseeable future.