Leave campaigners have insisted farmers will receive the same level of funding if the UK decides to leave the European Union.
Agricultural projects will be continued until 2020, according to an open letter by Vote Leave.
Th letter says: "There is more than enough money to ensure that those who now get funding from the EU – including universities, scientists, family farmers, regional funds, cultural organisations and others – will continue to do so while also ensuring that we save money."
Vote Leave have been strongly criticised for "taking farmers for fools" with today's comments, despite warnings from economic experts that leaving would blow a £40 billion hole in the nation's finances.
Former NFU President Peter Kendall said: "The leave campaigners are taking farmers for fools.
"The majority of experts agree that the damage to the economy from leaving the EU would far outweigh any claimed savings.
"Yet still the Leave campaign pledge to fund farming, the science community and local initiatives to the same level as now.
"Farmers are practical people and have to do basic sums on a daily basis; we know that the magical money tree doesn't exist.
"Promising to spend the same money many times over when experts say it will be in short supply is simply being dishonest."
