Dan Burling

progressive arable and beef farmer- breeding sustainable high £profit Stabiliser Cattle- beef innovator 2017 finalist- dad of two. insta-@overcote_stabilisers

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

Cheaper food on the shelves.
British farmers undercut by imports produced to standards we're not allowed to use.

What could possibly go wrong. 🫤

@UKLabour #FoodSecurity #BritishFarming #NoFarmersNoFood

https://t.co/a0B67f4oIz

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

I do not support increasing food prices for consumers. My comments were about the need for a fairer and more consistent supply chain for British farmers, not about making bread or other everyday food unaffordable.

As many people in the sector understand, the farmgate value of wheat is only a small part of the retail price of a loaf, so it is simply wrong to suggest that improving returns to farmers would mean food prices doubling. The same principle applies across much of the food chain.

The Guardian article has taken a comment about trade policy and farmgate returns and presented it in a misleading way. My point was that government policy has the power to materially affect the price farmers receive, and that British agriculture has been undermined for years by unfair competition, poor policy, and a lack of supply chain fairness.

I believe consumers deserve affordable food, farmers deserve a fair return, and the country deserves a food system that is more resilient, consistent, and less reliant on imports produced to different standards.

Reform’s agriculture manifesto has not yet been published, so any suggestion that this article reflects settled party policy is speculative.

[Joe Stanley @JoeWStanley]

What’s the actual point? When will retailers just start paying people to take fresh food out of supermarkets?

Devaluing food; devaluing farmers; devaluing the environment.

[National Farmers' Union @NFUtweets]

"This is something farmers are going to really struggle to forgive."

ICYMI 🎙️| NFU President Tom Bradshaw joined @POLITICOEurope's #WestminsterInsider to explain how the family farm tax has changed farmer's relationship with government.

Listen here 👉 https://t.co/8ALV9pHO7D

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

We are one of the stupidest countries on earth for managing our food system

[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.

[Andrew Branton @Spaldingprop]

The EA madness continues! £1 million worth of Kit cutting grass that hasn’t yet grown on a bank they can neither afford to maintain or repair when it breaches. Speechless.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Tax dodging farmers being blamed for NHS waiting lists, high interest rates, mortgage holders and the state of the economy was not in the head space of anyone in the entire country apart from Keir Starmer.

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

💥 Iceland boss and Labour backer Richard Walker has spoken out against the party's inheritance tax proposals on farmers, after previously supporting the measure

https://t.co/BEeiaCd7WE

[Andrew Ward 🇬🇧🚜 @wheat_daddy]

Rachel in accounts said this 👇
in 2023. I think someone needs to tell her by taking away everything a farmer has and taxing us to the hilt, protecting the environment is one of the last things we’ll be doing.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Steve Witherden Labour Party MP for Montgomeryshire & Glyndŵr makes this powerful plea in Parliament to the Labour government to change inheritance tax on family farms & significantly raise the threshold so family farms aren’t affected. All credit to him. Principles before party.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Co-op has now joined Asda, Morrisons, Boots, Tesco, and Lidl in calling on the Government to reconsider its proposed inheritance tax changes for farmers

[@StephSpyro]

[Tom Bradshaw @ProagriLtd]

Huge admiration for ⁦@DanNeidle⁩ who was willing to look at the detail of the IHT policy proposal and conclude that it should be amended!

New ‘Tractor tax’ blow to Starmer as Labour expert calls for government U-turn | The Independent https://t.co/XVhwBeZnVl

[Tom Allen-Stevens @tomallenstevens]

So I’ve read the Hansard account of the debate and have a few comments 🧵

Firstly, the 5bn over 2yrs @RachelReevesMP has allocated is not “the biggest budget for food production and nature recovery in UK history”.

In real terms it is the smallest

https://t.co/iqx0lyW5Rz

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

Farmers saw this within seconds of the budget announcement. Wider business so busy dealing with other economic disasters like NIC’s etc seemed to miss this and it WILL CRIPPLE this countries economy

@RachelReevesMP committed economic suicide in her budget ☹️

[Andrew Ward 🇬🇧🚜 @wheat_daddy]

You were elected by only 9.7m people out of a possible 48.2m eligible voters. The lowest number to form a government since the war. You got into No10 by deceit, and lying, nothing to crow about. If your manifesto said you were going freeze our pensioners and ruin farming and businesses, you would be unemployed now.

[Dan Burling @stabiliserdan]

@OOOfarmer Spot on

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

Please sign this petition to help save family farms & the British countryside from becoming owned by huge faceless offshore corporations with no interest in growing for or caring for local environment

This is so important, it’s British farmers “closure of the mines” moment, the impact on rural communities would be devastating

[Farmer Tom 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 @Farmer_Tom_UK]

Oh please, this really is embarrassing.
Quoting a budget number for two years so it doesn’t sound like a cut, sharing a previously launched budget for flooding mitigation (which hasn’t reached farmers months after the event), and this nonsense about ‘only the richest farmers’ being targeted for inheritance tax when the average farm will pay hundreds of thousands for simply wanting the next generation to continue producing food. If you haven’t got anything good to say, just say nothing.

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

and what do @NFUtweets plan to do about this please ?