Bps is a subsidy, always hearing how it’s vital to make farms profitable and loads worrying on here about it going. Surely if we are so good that wouldn’t be the case and it wouldn’t be needed?It's not a subsidy, it's a payment for public good. The question is, where is the public good in interfering with those fine tuned systems developed to best suit an individual farm ?
Yes, I would say that this is the point. Even if there was justification in owning sufficient kit to be able to employ either DD or ploughing, there can be no doubt that the bigger the farm the lower the £/acre of owning that kit.
Is it Government policy to use ELMS to discriminate in favour of larger units ? Because if it isn't, then that is another reason not to sub DD.