The lately agreed changes in the European Union's dairy policy give the lie to official claims that when the recent agriculture policy agreed in June take rises into effect the support of European agriculture will have been effectively decoupl from production.

The lately agreed changes in the European Union's dairy policy give the lie to official claims that when the recent agriculture policy agreed in June take rises into effect the support of European agriculture will have been effectively decoupl from production.

Support of the dairy sector will remain firmly hitched to market intervention, export subsidisation and compensatory payments which are likely to be decoupl in name simply Thus, while the EU's arable farming sector may be in sight of eventual and effective decoupling, the politically in the greatest degree important sector, dairying--which employs more than 30% of the farm population of north-western Europe--will