Rob King

[TheFarmingForum @TheFarmingForum]

Farming is in My family’s DNA. You can’t just train a farmer, you have to grow one, you have to have your sons and Daughters around it when they are kids, they have to live it and love it.
We have taught our boys right from before they could walk, it’s part of who they are.
Why on earth would someone who hasn’t lived a farming life want to put themselves up for this job ?
Our Farm workers were childhood friends of Clive who played on this very farm, they loved it then and still do, this isn’t a job you put in the jobs classified section and anyone has a go. This is nurturing, this is 3 generations of bloody hard work and borrowing sums of money that would make your eyes water. For what ? for 1% profit and a legacy for our kids.
We are unlike lots of farming families and have diversified into lots of different things over the years but trust me these diversification projects have propped up our farm before anything else, we have subsidised our farm all of these years despite it being a lot easier to just jack it in.
My heart is breaking for many of our farming friends and their families as they watch their life’s work be taken from them bit by bit by this Government. Families who live their lives just getting by financially but thinking it’s worth it because they are doing what they were born to do and Love.
Taking a massive pride in the food they produce, not one of them not willing to give everything to keep their family farms going.
My father in law John, knew the names of all of his cows, his mum was a talented artist and even painted pictures of his favourites as gifts, he has hundreds of photos of his animals and will talk to me for hours about his life on the farm, he is 78 now and what should have been a happy retirement looking back on his achievements has now become a great sadness to him, to think we may lose the farm to pay our tax bill or this government might compulsory purchase our land is beyond devastating.
Hundreds of farmers are in this position all around this country and we need your help. Your help to keep on producing the highest quality of food for your families. We must keep farms passing down the generations, if farming families don’t pass on the batons who will do this for you ?

Please please write to your local MP and support you food producers before we are all gone.
Farmers please tell your stories on social media, go to the protests if you can, reach out to other farmers, check in on each other @thefarmingforum we are all in this together.

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

It looks like this year’s harvest will be catastrophic. That should be a worry for anyone who eats food. If a disaster on this scale had befallen any other industry, there would be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.

[Robbie Moore MP @_RobbieMoore]

Is this a joke?

HMRC have just awarded “Expert of the Year” to the civil servant who provided the analysis to the Government for the Family Farm Tax.

From day one it was clear the failure to include pure BPR claims in Treasury projections was a huge oversight. Not only for the impact on farmers, but for other family businesses as well.

This was and still is, a huge mistake in the Government’s analysis.

Farming bodies explained within days the true cost to our farmers, and increasingly business organisations are realising the vast impact this will have on family-owned businesses - including manufacturers, hospitality businesses, and many others.

Remember this is the same Government machine that has avoided every opportunity it can to engage with farmers and businesses on this issue.

Perhaps HMRC should spend less time handing out awards and more time speaking to people in the real world.

To boast about this sheer incompetence is frankly, quite astonishing.

[Olly harrison 🥛🍔🌱AccidentalYoutuber @agricontract]

Stop the uk I want to get off
Country side and family business in tatters
MPs loosing seats
Farmers taking there lives
And some one wins a award
😡
@loosecollie @wheat_daddy @TWBFarms @FarmersWeekly @JeremyClarkson @FarmersGuardian

[Farmer Tom 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 @Farmer_Tom_UK]

“If you care, care now, not ten years in the future when it’s all gone. We need your support now”.

Making no apologies for how cutting and clear my commentary is. @DefraGovUK @SteveReedMP @RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer do the right thing. You are ruining our country.

[Morrisons @Morrisons]

A message to British Farmers from Morrisons - we’re with you and support you 💪

[Rob King @RobKing90]

@BenGoldsborough @southnorfolk @NorfolkLabourCC @rurallabouruk @LabourCC @EofELabour It would have been nice to receive a reply to my email!

[Farmer Tom 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 @Farmer_Tom_UK]

The government have flunked their sums, they’ve made a mistake, they are wrong and they need to admit it and make amends. They are *literally* biting the hand that feeds. Join me and make your voice heard, passionately and politely.

Register here: https://t.co/51zTV0yL3K

[Robbie Moore MP @_RobbieMoore]

Labour’s budget has catastrophic consequences for our farming sector.

Gov must urgently listen to our farmers & make drastic changes - otherwise we will see end of family farming as we know it with dire impacts on food security.

At #NorthFarmConf message delivered loud & clear.

[National Farmers' Union @NFUtweets]

“The Treasury has got its figures wrong. This policy won’t protect family farms, it will do the opposite.”

NFU President Tom Bradshaw (@ProagriLtd) met with the Defra Secretary and Treasury officials to stress the significant impact changes to IHT (Inheritance Tax) would have on family farms across the country and the knock-on effect on homegrown food production.

Read more👉https://t.co/HTzdT9bFOr

[Nigel Owens MBE @Nigelrefowens]

Thank you all for your support. All of us depend on farmers for food every single day of our lives. The family farms are vital not just for our local communities survival & sustainable locally produced quality food,but also the fight again climate change. Please sign and support

[Rob King @RobKing90]

@BenGoldsborough @southnorfolk @NorfolkLabourCC @rurallabouruk @LabourCC @EofELabour Thank you for your reply Ben I will email you.

[The potting shed @GardenerFliss]

Thankyou to everyone who has sent me messages of support, I am beyond grateful that you hear me. Please show your support to those farmers who are struggling to find hope . ⁦@TheFarmingForum⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦@KirstieMAllsopp⁩ ⁦@RachelReevesMP⁩

[Rob King @RobKing90]

@BenGoldsborough @southnorfolk @NorfolkLabourCC @rurallabouruk @LabourCC @EofELabour As a farmer in your South Norfolk constituency I can say Labour are not backing British farmers! Labours changes to APR and BPR are causing untold distress and anxiety in the farming community! With elderly relatives in our business this is a very real threat to our survival!

[Olly harrison 🥛🍔🌱AccidentalYoutuber @agricontract]

You Don’t kick a dog when it’s down

Why are farmers angry and in despair
Explain below
@RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer @NFUtweets @elonmusk @JeremyClarkson @harrym_vids @TWBFarms @loosecollie @wheat_daddy
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[Tim Farron @timfarron]

The Chancellor’s budget is a disaster for tenant farmers.

Small family-owned farms will be hit by the changes to inheritance tax and will be forced to sell up, with young people robbed of their opportunity to farm.

We’ll be fighting tooth and nail to protect family farms.

[A. R. Peters & Son @sussexfarming]

Farmers produce food, people need food , Dutch farmers are very good at producing food. sad that they get pushed to this.

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

Madness. Utter utter madness. Protest held over Oxfordshire County Council's decision to serve only vegan food | Oxford Mail https://t.co/jYc7ssZWg3

[Charles Goadby @thisfarmlife]

Based on average yields, a hectare of malting barley is worth £34,000 to the treasury and the UK malting is worth £6.9 Billion in duty! 😳. Puts the £3 Billion total on farm support into perspective.

[Weetabix @weetabix]

Why should bread have all the fun, when there's Weetabix? Serving up @HeinzUK Beanz on bix for breakfast with a twist. #ItHasToBeHeinz #HaveYouHadYourWeetabix