Britain has long dissented from the majority of the European Union on CAP's subsidy programs. The United Kingdom is one of the largest net contributors to the CAP system, and annually it receives 1.3 billion euros ($1.4 billion) less from the CAP fund than it pays in. Nevertheless, roughly 55 percent of agricultural income in the United Kingdom derives from CAP support. The British Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs estimates that from 2014 to 2015, half of England's farmers would have failed to cover their production costs without support payments. Even with the payments, 20 percent of farms cannot meet their expenses. Should Britain leave the European Union and CAP, many British farmers would struggle to maintain production. After all, there is no guarantee that the funds once allocated to CAP would instead go to British farmers after the Brexit.