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Welcome to Refresh – a new initiative by young people, for young people,  to provide a free-market response to Britain's biggest issues ​

With March 2019 rapidly approaching, plenty of government departments are in a race to prepare for the impact of Brexit.

With that in mind, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) in Northern Ireland – agriculture is a devolved issue – already has a fair idea how it wants to deal with the end of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments.

Agricultural subsidies are a big part of what the EU does. As it stands, farmers receive a subsidy related to the amount of land they own, if it fits with regulations laid out by the EU. In 2013,...

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