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Farming machinery improves in leaps and bounds
The 1960s and early 1970s are a time of vast technological improvements to farm machinery. Farms turning to more mechanisation found improved yields and lower labour costs. By 1953 the government is no longer the main purchaser of agricultural goods and National Union of Farmers and the Department of Agriculture aid farm production through government subsidies.
In 1973 under Prime Minister Ted Heath the UK joins the European Economic Community (EEC) and joins the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), a system of farm subsidies and programmes.