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Last month a blog post by Tessa Munt, Liberal Democrat MP for Wells, reported on problems at the Rural Payments Agency (RPA). 

The RPA is owned by The Department for Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and has been in the news fairly regularly following reviews that found it was poorly managed and criticism from MPs that it had been slow making payment to England's farmers under the EU Single Payment Subsidy scheme. The latest round of problems has apparently left one farmer unable to get the RPA computer to recognise a claim because he milks sheep, and not cows.