Mr Kellett says the increase has come about because there are now more products that allow over-the-counter investors access to agricultural funds.

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It is clear that the common agricultural policy and regional funds will be unaffordable unless they are substantially reformed before Turkey joins.

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In particular, they will work to secure reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and Structural and Cohesion Funds and to ensure that the EU policies and institutions meet the concerns of our citizens.

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Alun Davies AM supported the party's motion calling on the assembly to recognise the importance of the budget of the European Union for the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and regional funds.

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So our common goals of ensuring that Britain is in Europe, and helping to run Europe, thereby achieving economic reform, changes to the protectionist common agricultural policy, reform of the structural funds, and so on, are made even more difficult.

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Third, the diversion of agricultural subsidies involved only 1% of the funds allocated to the programme.

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France is pushing for cuts in the structural funds even as it defends the wasteful common agricultural policy.

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All funds were given to the Isle of Man Agricultural Benevolent Trust (IOMABT).

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Labour's deputy minister for European programmes, Alun Davies, said Wales had benefited from the EU's common agricultural policy (Cap) payments to farmers and structural funds to improve the economy.

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These exchanged funds (ETFs) purchase a variety of agricultural commodity futures, and increases in the price of wheat, corn, cattle, and other food prices will benefit shareholders of these securities.

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Bottom Line: Congress should insist that new taxpayer funds be specifically earmarked to advance the privatization of Russia's huge agricultural sector -- primarily with the use of "decommissioned" Russian military equipment, personnel and logistic support.

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But the ministries that shell out the funds run the projects, so if a governor thinks his prefecture doesn't need a proposed agricultural road, he can't redirect the money to build a nursing home.

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