For many farmers, the end of the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) is a headache they have yet to find a workable treatment for.
While the move towards environmental payments will go some way to bridging the financial loss of BPS for those who wish to engage in the new schemes, for many more it will not come close to filling the void.
While in England some rudimentary sums can be done around Environmental Land Management (ELM) and what it means for each farm, the picture is less clear for those in Wales and Scotland about exactly what the future holds.
And that is what is makes this weeks spat over the future of ELM so intriguing, because while there are those ideologically aligned to the scheme or farmers who are set to benefit, there are scores of others who would welcome the return of an annual payment or BPS-style alternative.
In the uplands in particular ELM is causing huge concerns over how farmers, often hampered by onerous stocking regulations in the first place, will make up the shortfall once BPS has gone.
And even in the lowland areas and on large tracts of arable land, concerns are being expressed about whether ELM would dovetail with viable food production aims on certain farms.
That is not to say that ELM has been written off or is seen as a disaster, but there will be many who want BPS to remain and allow them to carry on farming as they always have done.
And therein lies another huge problem in that while BPS has kept farmers in business, it has also stifled innovation and prevented new people coming in.
The line Government has to walk over farm support is a fine one, and one that needs to balance the competing demands of food production and environmental protection, although the latter is something farmers believe they have been doing for a long time.
Who knows where this Liz Truss-led Government will head on farm policy, but if the events of the last week are anything to go by there could be a few unexpected twists and turns ahead.
