Tom Nelthorpe

Financial journalist, forester, farmer with varying degrees of competence. Slightly back.

[Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe]

You just have to keep the music brutal, I guess /13

[Joe Stanley @JoeWStanley]

In the context of everything farmers & society have been told since 2017, this is insane.

Overnight @UKLabour has ejected the foundational principle that we need more nature & climate action across our landscape in favour of culture wars.

🧵 1/

https://t.co/OqnRcxuHyq

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

This evening the goverment shut the door for new applications on the new environmental scheme (SFI) that was supposed to be the replacement (if the farmer was environmentally progressive) of the old subsidies

Farmers can NOT now apply for new environmental support

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

Dozens of farmers and their tractors are making their way across the Humber Bridge! 🚜 🇬🇧

📸 @AnnaLongthorp

[bandcamp @Bandcamp]

On Friday, February 7, Bandcamp will be donating our share of sales to MusiCares to aid those impacted by the California wildfires. https://t.co/mL4CJhWOJM

[Samaritans @samaritans]

It might feel extra hard to reach out for help today because it’s Christmas. But please know you don’t have to face anything alone. If you’re having a hard time, we’ll face it with you. We’re here all day and night 💚

[Sam Bedford @SamBedford13]

https://t.co/qHbP57sRRN

[Lincolnshire Rural Support Network @Lincsruralhelp]

In January people often decide to start a health kick, so the launch of our new health clinic is perfect timing!
Pop along to see our nurse in the North Lincolnshire clinic funded by @ADMAgriculture.
7 Jan at Brigg Peacock & Binnington
21 Jan at Corringham Peacock & Binnington

[Humberside Police - East Riding of Yorkshire North @Humberbeat_ERYN]

Two Males have been Sentenced after Pleading Guilty to Theft and Criminal Damage that occurred on Woldgate, Rudston.
Michael Ford, 47, of Westernmoor, Washington and Thomas Garside, 33, of Elderwood Gardens, Middlesborough, were ordered to complete unpaid work and Pay Costs.

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

The conflating of ‘farming’ and feudal aristocrats in this piece is breathtakingly daft - a genuinely progressive land policy is possible but it isn’t this budget

Farmers have hoarded land for too long. IHT will bring new life to rural Britain | W Hutton https://t.co/Vyl37DsAHd

[Ben Cowell (@bencowell.bsky.social) @Ben_CowellDG]

In today's @ObserverUK, @williamnhutton takes aim at @Historic_Houses for pushing back against the inheritance tax changes in the Budget.
But our argument is about the effect on heritage, which is too rarely mentioned in this context. (1/9)

[Richard Negus @TrooperSnooks]

"The Reeves budget is more than an attack on farming, it is a full scale assault on entire rural communities..."

Read my latest piece in @TheCriticMag for free here, then make sure a friend reads it.

[David Walston @OOOfarmer]

OK, here's my APR plan, which will fix *everything*, guaranteed.

IHT relief on Agricultural Property [AP] is scrapped. When someone who owns AP dies, there is full IHT due on the value.

However, the AP can go onto a register, which means the tax is deferred indefinitely.

[Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe]

Charging Scout groups, schools and hospitals rent? I mean c'mon this is noblesse oblige 101.
https://t.co/Hogk2hlp2J

[Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe]

@NicDakin55 Nic, the APR proposals will harm owner-occupiers and tenant farmers, and not just their landlords (despite Mr Reed's rhetoric). I've written to you separately at greater length than social media allows - please pass your rural constituents' concerns on to the Chancellor.

[Henry Jeffreys is working on a new book @HenryGJeffreys]

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[Country Land & Business Assn @CLAtweets]

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[Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe]

Yes, and given the havoc wreaked by the budget on that "other" big land use, I think this a major win for forestry. If you are a tenant hill farmer you'll be eyeing your landlord very warily

[Forestry Journal @Forestry_UK]

Mention of forestry and tree care was lacking in the Autumn Budget 👇

https://t.co/b5CjnuiFMK

[Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe]

HAIL!
https://t.co/iVHp6d5wGm

[Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe]

I don't imagine any of the major countryside organisations will be very happy with this, though I can see a wildlife trust buying that land tied down in covenants/106s for a song.

[Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe]

Between the cap/reduction in agricultural property relief and its extension to environmental scheme land, this budget looks a lot like one for the Green Lairds. Sell the carbon/ biodiversity/etc attributes, move the proceeds, benefit from a lower IHT base.