Tim Gue

just farmers doing our best

[Tim Gue @TimGue1]

@HefinR @benpattinson1 Lane Control is so dangerous

[Tim Gue @TimGue1]

In the foreground maize after grass which was cut mid April, and behind Maize after shoot strip which was sprayed off in Feb. can’t farm without moisture

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1984, Britain produced enough food to feed itself for 306 days of the year.

Today the figure is around 233 days. The country grows about 60 per cent of the food it eats, down from 78 per cent in the mid-1980s, and imports very nearly half of what ends up on the plate.

This is a country with some of the best grazing and dairy pasture in the world, a long coastline, and a climate that grows grass nine months of the year.

The decline was a choice, made gradually, in favour of cheaper imports. British farms were undercut, then handed welfare and environmental rules their foreign competitors did not have to meet, then left to watch the supermarkets fill the shelves from abroad.

The beef comes from Ireland and South America. The bacon from Denmark and the Netherlands. The lamb, out of season, is flown from New Zealand. The cheese from anywhere with a spare tanker.

The land that could feed the nation is still here. Each year a little more of what the nation eats is grown, raised, and slaughtered somewhere else, and the gap between the field outside the window and the food in the fridge widens by another notch.

[Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith]

Inheritance Tax in the UK has become ridiculously complex.

Consider a married couple.

They might have:

• A family home worth £1.2m
• £800,000 of investments
• £1m in pensions
• Two children

Simple enough.

Now try calculating their inheritance tax bill.

First, there's a £325,000 Nil Rate Band.

Then a £175,000 Residence Nil Rate Band.

Unless the property isn't left to direct descendants.

Or unless they downsize.

Or unless the estate exceeds £2m.

At which point the Residence Nil Rate Band starts disappearing.

At a rate of £1 lost for every £2 above the threshold.

But not the Nil Rate Band.

Just the Residence Nil Rate Band.

Then add gifts.

Some are immediately exempt.

Some are exempt after seven years.

Some become partially exempt after three years.

Some use annual allowances.

Some don't.

Some fall under normal expenditure from income.

Some don't.

Then add pensions.

Historically outside the estate.

Now inside the estate from April 2027.

Then add Business Relief.

Agricultural Relief.

Trusts.

Life assurance.

Spousal exemptions.

Deeds of variation.

And don't forget that one small change can create a completely different outcome.

Meanwhile most families think:

"We've got a £1m allowance. We'll be fine."

Inheritance tax isn't just a tax.

It's a strategy game designed by civil servants, lawyers, accountants and politicians over decades.

The rules are so complex that intelligent, successful people routinely get them wrong.

Have you ever looked at the inheritance tax rules and thought:

"How on earth is a normal person supposed to understand this?"

Needs a complete rethink.

[Hefin Richards @HefinR]

World Milk Day draws to a close in the UK, I wonder how many producers will decide that this is their last. With some processors paying way below 30ppl There are well run businesses absolutely haemorrhaging cash and burning equity -time is running out!🙄🐄 @NFU_Dairy @AHDB_Dairy

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

The law needs to be changed to declassify a Pension as a benefit.

I find it grotesque that having paid into a system all your working life that it’s deemed as a handout rather than something you deserve for working hard all your life.

Benefits are for people that don’t work

Pensions are for people who worked hard & earned their pension.

A pension is not a benefit.

[Hefin Richards @HefinR]

@loosecollie @BGT @JeremyClarkson Well in my humble opinion- (I am Welsh and used to sing a bit….)

They smashed it tonight!! Last week was the weakest combination in my view - tonights was 🔥🔥🔥 @RealHawkstone Everybody please VOTE Hawkestone🙂❤️

[Tim Gue @TimGue1]

@20th_Centurygal

[Tim Gue @TimGue1]

@HefinR @TWBFarms @RakePark @DefraGovUK I agree, it’s too good a chemical to lose, even if there is no evidence that it’s in any way more harmful than most of our daily diet. You can’t do re-gen without it.

[Tim Gue @TimGue1]

@HefinR @TWBFarms @RakePark @DefraGovUK It’s very difficult (not impossible but need a swather etc) to harvest OSR without glyphosate. Most yrs pos for cereals even on our Berwickshire farm but you use much more power drying the crop, like most things it’s a trade off. Can be done but £ and environmental cost.

[Farmers Guardian @FarmersGuardian]

Wes Streeting says Labour must listen to farmers and earn back their trust. 🔴

But FG reporter Chris Brayford argues that, despite warm words for the industry, only abolishing Inheritance Tax altogether can save the party's rural vote.

🗣️"It is a start, at least. I have not heard such words from current or former ministers."

READ MORE: https://t.co/fs1Bww3Ybj

[Tim Gue @TimGue1]

@TWBFarms @wheat_daddy @wesstreeting @UKLabour He’s despicable

[Tim Gue @TimGue1]

@JamesMelville

[Tim Gue @TimGue1]

@terrierview @1noeloconnor Very important and inconvenient, healthy Badgers and Healthy Cows should be the target

[Richard Negus @TrooperSnooks]

Rachel Reeves -"Free bus travel for 5-15 year olds"

Kids in the countryside - "What's a bus?"

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

After 18 months of “standing up to Putin” the Labour govt quietly issued a licence allowing imports of Russian oil refined in third countries.

Yesterday Labour MPs voted AGAINST UK oil and gas licences.

We are now importing from Russia instead of drilling in the North Sea.

Insane.

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

The scary thing about supermarket food price caps is that we already know how this ends.

The supermarkets protect their margins, the processors protect theirs, and the squeeze gets pushed straight back onto farmers ☹️

Not a penny off billions in supermarket profits, but another cut for the people producing the food.

A serious government would focus on securing fertiliser, energy and domestic food production to prevent shortages and inflation in the first place.

But that would require understanding that food comes from farms, not supermarkets.

@agricontract @loosecollie @wheat_daddy @TheFarmingForum @GBNEWS @Iromg @MartinDaubney

https://t.co/MbOqEIiTze

#Farming #FoodSecurity #UKFarming #Agriculture #CostOfLiving #FoodPrices #Inflation #Tesco #Farmers #EnergyCrisis #FoodSupply

[Tim Gue @TimGue1]

@ClarksonsFarm1 @1noeloconnor Never seen a Holstein with a black udder?

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

New green taxes on fertilizer could leave UK fields unplanted and drive up food prices.

Government must take action on this urgently

New green taxes risk making crop production unviable, farmers warn

https://t.co/vCGBYQKCa5

#FoodSecurity #Farming #UKAgriculture #nettstupid #nettzero

@ReformParty_UK @Conservatives @UKLabour

[Tim Gue @TimGue1]

@rattycastle We’d take that in the South East