The Farm at Radford

Working farm trying regenerative farming, holiday cottage and walled farm garden in the Cotswolds. Airbnb when we can. We are on Instagram as thefarmatradford

[The Farm at Radford @ShopBlacksmiths]

Something I’m proud of. I planted this about 15 years ago, and it keeps getting better! #wildflowerhour #Countryside #BeekeepersHour #beekeeping #Flowers No people just bees and birds and hares!

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

Where was @wesstreeting when Labour was destroying farming with the Family Farm Tax? 🤔

Nowhere !

Now farmers are one of the biggest voices against this government and suddenly he wants to listen……… well fancy that 🤣

No farmer is falling for it Wes 🫤
@UKLabour @reformparty_uk @TiceRichard @Nigel_Farage @loosecollie @wheat_daddy @agricontract @TheFarmingForum
#FamilyFarmTax #BritishFarming #NoFarmersNoFood

[The Farm at Radford @ShopBlacksmiths]

@JRDixonltd Shocking- we’re farming here and made huge losses in the drought last summer. Looks like the same again this time- only so much you can do to keep going very sorry to hear of any business going but without hauliers we’re all stuffed.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer dies in April 2026.

His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.

The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.

On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.

In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.

The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.

The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.

A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.

The Treasury collects £140,000.

The land never produces British food again.

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

Andy Burnham says land in the UK is 'undertaxed'.

I'll leave that one with you. 🫤

Loss making industry will never pay tax .......... It simply can't

@UKLabour @reformparty_uk
#FamilyFarmTax #BritishFarming #UKFarming #FoodSecurity #SaveFamilyFarms

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

How many family farms survive this?

And if they don’t, does the UK countryside change forever?

https://t.co/RbRDQ3pFgV

#Farming #Agriculture #FoodSecurity #Farmers #BritishFarming #FoodPrices #CostOfLiving #Wheat #Fertiliser #Diesel #RuralBritain #FoodProduction #UKFarming @Telegraph @CAAV_UK

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Tesco chief Ashwin Prasad said demand for “fresh healthy British home-grown food” had never been stronger among its customers.

Yet…

Tesco Rosedene Farms apples sounds like a quaint British farm…except the apples here are from France.

It’s time to end the supermarket farmwashing that dupes shoppers into thinking they are buying British food, when instead, they are buying produce from overseas.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Two adverts by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) promoting British beef and milk have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after television presenter and environmental campaigner Chris Packham complained that they misled consumers about the products’ carbon footprints. Here are the adverts. Support British farmers. Buy British milk and British Beef.
🇬🇧 🥛🥩

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

So it now looks like Keir Starmer is on his way out. And about time. What he did to British farmers was unforgivable.

[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

I’ve seen some desperate audition tapes, but Angela Rayner’s 1,000 word "Please Hire Me" post takes the prize. We have officially graduated from a government to a full blown psychological experiment.

Angela, calling out toxic cronyism
while the ink is barely dry on your own resignation over that £40,000 tax row is legendary levels of delusion. You didn't just voice concerns, you handed the PM a P45 in public while holding the door open for Andy Burnham. It’s not a cabinet anymore, it’s a group of people checking each other’s coats for concealed blades.

The reason you’ve suffered a historic defeat isn't a mystery, it’s because the public is tired of a dishonest, incompetent regime that prioritizes an open-door migration policy over its own citizens. You're waging a war on the people who pay your salary while you overlook your own tax duties.

While the front bench spends their Sunday stabbing each other in the throat to see who can rule the rubble, the rest of us are just waiting for the adults to take over. You didn't pass the probation period. Go away and pay your taxes. Absolute carnage

[The Farm at Radford @ShopBlacksmiths]

@SeddSezz @Keir_Starmer @GordonBrown Can’t wait for PMQs

[The Farm at Radford @ShopBlacksmiths]

@SEANLWOODCOCK They do have jobs though…

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

If farmers don’t have the confidence to plant this autumn, that season is lost,

Nature isn’t a factory you can switch on and off.

@UKLabour must act now to give farmers certainty, or rising food costs will be locked in.

We can’t fix what we didn’t plant. #FoodSecurity #Farming #EnergyCrisis

[The Farm at Radford @ShopBlacksmiths]

If only… @SEANLWOODCOCK

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

When American farmers get this level of focus on action, you do wonder if British farmers might ever be treated to more than a soundbite from our own ministers ☹️#BritishFarmers #Agriculture #FarmPolicy #UKFarming #ActionNotWords

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

When American farmers get this level of focus on action, you do wonder if British farmers might ever be treated to more than a soundbite from our own ministers ☹️#BritishFarmers #Agriculture #FarmPolicy #UKFarming #ActionNotWords

[James Buffy-Maun @buffymaun]

@JuliaHB1 This was last September!

https://t.co/w0ywUrDsSH

[The Farm at Radford @ShopBlacksmiths]

@SEANLWOODCOCK License to fly tip granted to a cow…

[Grifty @TheGriftReport]

Wiltshire farmer Ann Maidment, 42, has brilliantly exposed the “ridiculous” government waste licensing system, by registering her prize cow Beau Vine as an official rubbish disposer.

It took just five minutes online and cost £184. The Environment Agency approved it instantly. No ID, no business checks, no criminal record verification, just a tick-box promise of no environmental offences.

Her family cattle farm in north Wiltshire has been repeatedly hit by fly-tippers dumping everything from asbestos to kitchen waste.

Ann’s message is simple: “A system that cannot stop a cow cannot stop a criminal.”

Fly-tipping now costs Britain £1 billion a year, with 1.26 million incidents last year alone, many carried out by licensed “carriers” who then illegally dump on rural land.

Farmers are left with tens of thousands in clean-up bills while the system smooths the path for organised crime.

Government now promises tougher checks… but the cow licence proves it’s been wide open for years.

[The Farm at Radford @ShopBlacksmiths]

@SEANLWOODCOCK @ProagriLtd How is IHT to be paid on 1000 acres when business surplus (ie wages for the self employed) is likely to be £2 per acre this year?

[The Farm at Radford @ShopBlacksmiths]

@wheat_daddy And when are Vivergo back onllne

[The Farm at Radford @ShopBlacksmiths]

@wheat_daddy Flip flopping is Keir’s style. Unfortunately the rest of us have to pay for it. The US will meet all our needs until it won’t.

[The Farm at Radford @ShopBlacksmiths]

@SEANLWOODCOCK I’d be more worried about the French deal if I were a politician…