It seems that there is a proposal that we should be leaving more land uncultivated and to encourage this we are going to make payments to those that do. Read here.
In the meantime we still have millions of people starving in the world and food prices are rising all over.
The EU abandoned this policy but the UK seems to want to reintroduce it because some greenies whinged. Priorities seem to be a little bit screwed up here.