What is immediately clear is that the MAFF has over-reaching agenda, or goal: raising food self-sufficiency.
But I am bothered most by the apparent inability of MAFF to conceive of free market approaches.
After helping Maff during the 1967 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, he moved to Kenya in 1968 where he worked until 1974.
Carwyn Jones has insisted that a livestock market - implicated by the Maff - should not be blamed for the spread of foot-and-mouth.
One of the tasks that must happen on all farms in the spring is the filling in of the dreaded IACS form for Maff.
Today I will outline the thinking of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), for better or worse probably the key player in deciding future policy.
Mr Cockbain is a deputy county chairman of the NFU and sits on the MAFF Hillfarm Advisory Committee - and he's in no doubt about what he wants for his animals.
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Maff) officials now say the highly contagious virus may have been spreading from a pig farm at Heddon-on-the-Wall, in Northumberland, for more than two weeks.
Meanwhile, in Powys - where the largest concentration of cases exists in Wales - MAFF officials are to interview farmers under caution to discover how the disease has been spreading in the area.
He's the Director of the Institute for Animal Health at the Pirbright Laboratory in Surrey, which has been doing most of the testing for MAFF and is the only place in the UK licensed to handle foot and mouth vaccine.
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