Will Francis

Agronomist with a love of dirt.

All views are my own and spoken out loud while crop walking alone.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

New data on farms and inheritance tax: a third of farm estates over £1.5m aren’t farmers but wealthy people avoiding IHT by sinking money into farmland.

The Budget hits farmers too hard and tax avoiders too lightly. It needs to change.

[Benedict Spence @BenedictSpence]

If I was prime minister, I would simply *not* tweet that I was meeting with a company at the center of conspiracies about buying up land in the immediate aftermath of a farmers’ protest.

The man can’t even be evil competently.

[Will Francis @WillFran_AG]

@TWBFarms @wheat_daddy @ProagriLtd @NoFarmsNoFoods

[Will Francis @WillFran_AG]

With Rachel Reeves bringing uk pensions together into 6 mega pots has anybody asked if they intend to invest in purchasing UK farmland? If they are this debate becomes even more existential with massive Maoist and Stalinist overtones of farmland collectivisation.

[Nick von Westenholz @nvonwestenholz]

A new word leapt into my head in the middle of the night - "metrosplaining".

When apparent experts pass confident judgement on rural issues while displaying a very obvious lack of knowledge about the rural economy and rural way of life.

Who knows why I suddenly thought of it

[Will Francis @WillFran_AG]

@SteveReedMP Would a more sensible policy not be to charge the full 40% inheritance tax when land is sold by non farming will beneficiaries? Closing the loop hole but protecting family farms that wish to continue farming. Taxing unrealised value is wrong, it’s why we don’t tax shares owned.

[Will Francis @WillFran_AG]

Thanks for having us!

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

Well worth a watch - the first @TheFarmingForum youtube from the recent @mydirectdriller #coveringsoils day held at my farm a few weeks ago @AgriiUK 👍 check out my rare worms 🙂

https://t.co/Pl8Ia9Xh6e

[Rodrigo Werle @WiscWeeds]

When you are operating under pressure and forget a “small” detail (video received via @WhatsApp):

[Crister Stark @stark_crister]

Stoves for Ukraine
One of our senior engineers took an initiative to design and make stows for Ukraine all volunteering. Several of our suppliers make kits of material free of charge. We supply stoves in hundreds to Ukraine. We send to Vaderstad Ukraine Glory to Ukraine!
Crister

[Will Francis @WillFran_AG]

@DSVUKSEEDS

[Will Francis @WillFran_AG]

Great morning at our @AgriiUK Uttoxeter IFarm hosted by @atkinrob. Focusing on autumn vigor of OSR, companion crops and soils. Daktari winning the medal for autumn vigor with a tap root twice the length of any of the competition!

[Agrii @AgriiUK]

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[Agrii @AgriiUK]

We've extended the closing date on our Snood #giveaway

Head over to the Agrii #Facebook page for details:
https://t.co/o7SUnICIWi

[Will Francis @WillFran_AG]

@AgriiUK Great content

[Will Francis @WillFran_AG]

Some of the comments under this are honestly extraordinary.

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Government Ministers want to BAN solar farms from most of England's farmland.

With energy bills at an all time high, why on earth are they sabotaging cheap renewable energy?

[Will Francis @WillFran_AG]

@Agronomysilvers @Wrexham_AFC @VancityReynolds @RMcElhenney @DisneyPlusUK @bootlegger1974

[Will Francis @WillFran_AG]

Ya think?!

[Will Francis @WillFran_AG]

Chuffed with this bit of post!

[Will Francis @WillFran_AG]

@TWBFarms @no1sunkfarmer @tomallenstevens @Farm3Dwithtrees I don’t really understand the thinking on this one. Glyphosate is demonstrably safe for pre-harvest use. The anti glyphosate lobby wouldn’t see this as the industry offering an olive branch. They’d see it as an admission of danger and use it as evidence for a total ban.