In Northern Ireland, the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) owns the farm that received the highest CAP payment.

Based at Greenmount, Co Antrim, and with a hill farm between Larne and Ballymena, CAFRE farms 3,300 acres in total. It received £271,395 (€306,270) across both Pillar I direct payments and for Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC).

In total, six Northern Ireland farms received over £200,000 (€224,700) in direct payments, although across all 24,077 claimants, the vast majority (88%) receive payments below £25,000.

The average across all NI farms is £12,037 (approximately €13,524). That is significantly lower than counterparts in Britain.

In England, 549 farm businesses had direct payments of over £200,000, with the top claimant, The National Trust, taking in £4.6m.

In Scotland, 112 farm businesses had direct payments over £200,000, with five at over £0.5m. Across 17,865 claimants, the average Scottish farm received £25,432. The Welsh figure is at £15,200 and the English at £21,360.