Beware of cyber crooks who discover your EU payment

Whatever the rights and wrongs of publication of all beneficiaries of CAP funding, since last weekend, it is required by EU law, and is here to stay.

Therefore, the most important reaction by farmers is to bring down the shutters against the inevitable onslaught of criminals clever enough to find out on the Department of Agriculture website how much you get in direct payments from the EU, and who will seek to get their hands on some of your money.

In the UK, farmers and their single farm payments have become a major target for cyber crooks, robbers who do all their crime sitting at a computer.