Who We Are.

European agriculture just entered a policy moment that will reshape it for a generation. The current CAP has gone through its biggest simplification in years. The next one, post-2027, is being renegotiated right now. This includes a proposal to scrap the two-pillar structure that's defined EU farm policy for 25 years. We see this as an 18-month story, and almost nobody is translating it clearly for the people it actually affects.

That's what NetWorth Farmer does. We run The CAP Decoder, two weekly reads built from a single research effort but written for two very different readers:

The Furrow Line: every Wednesday, for working farmers. Does this change your payment or your paperwork, and by when?

The Ledger Line: every Friday, for investors and agribusiness professionals. Where is the money moving, and how does it compare across markets?

CAP is the core of what we do, but not the whole of it. We also feature a real story of a farmer or farm navigating the CAP, Agriculture Technology and regenerative transitions on Wednesdays, twice-weekly short teasers: AgTech news, CAP developments, and funding opportunities worth knowing about and once a month, we go back in history to learn how European agriculture got here.

Where We Stand.

We don't have a position on whether the CAP should shrink, decentralise to member states, or move faster on environmental conditionality. That's a live, good-faith argument among people who disagree, and it isn't ours to settle.

What we do have a position on is decoding the CAP, making it practical and getting the number right. We fact-check every claim against primary EU sources before publishing, we flag whether a policy is still proposed, provisionally agreed, or fully adopted, and we correct ourselves visibly when we get something wrong.

We serve an investor audience and a farmer audience from the same reporting. We think that's worth saying plainly, and it's exactly why we hold our sourcing to a stricter bar than either audience alone would demand of us.

Mission

To decode EU agricultural policy and to tell the fuller story of Europe's agricultural transition around it, for the people building, farming, and investing in what comes next.

Vision

To be Europe's trusted translation layer between Brussels and the people agriculture actually affects, from the policy that funds it to the ground it's changing.

CAP Budget: Two Pillars Become One, 2023–2034

  • Measured against the combined current total, that's roughly a 24% cut to the ring-fenced farm-support envelope, even before accounting for the much larger €865bn National and Regional Partnership pool member states can also draw on, which isn't guaranteed to agriculture the way these figures are.

  • This is exactly the kind of number that could still move.