First adaptations by cattle breeders in the face of the reformed CAP

Abstract

A survey was carried out at the end of 1993. 35 beef meat producing farms were involved. As a result the first adaptations of cattle breeders to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform were pin-pointed. A first and immediate kind of adaptations aims at optimizing the declaration filled out for obtaining compensatory benefits. This shows how well stock breeders have appropriated such a complex procedure. A second kind of adaptations, from a tchnical as well as structural point of view, do in fact meet the objectives of the CAP reform. Extensification and enlargement of farms were speeded up and inputs supplies were reduced.