CowPlan - Ivor Davey

Lying is important. Let your #cows rest for increased production. Think #comfycows

@NFUtweets @Jaynes__World Waste of time unless the grid connections and capacity to take the turbines improves.

Members, have you heard the news? 📢 Following NFU campaigning the government has announced plans that could soon allow farmers in England to install small onshore wind turbines without needing planning permission⚡ #BackBritishFarming To find out more👉ow.ly/kPi150Ywee8

Happy St Pirrans’ day

@SadikAlHassanMP Also waiting for an apology - claiming you support farmers now when I followed your vote to support the tax is simply dishonest !

I will be continuing to work with the LRRG and seek better outcomes for our local farmers and rural communities who play such a vital part in our national food security and economy.

Since the first budget there was a need for changes to Inheritance Tax thresholds (IHT) and it is one of the reasons I joined the Labour Rural Research Group.

The Government has announced changes to Agricultural and Business Property Relief reforms (APR and BPR), set to be introduced in 2026. We’ve consistently pressed the Government to rethink these reforms and welcome the changes. Chair @amcarmichaelMP shares his view 👇

Number of animals killed by non-stun slaughter last year—- 30,100,000 Number of reports of illegal fox hunting —- 397 I know which one I’d prioritise stopping.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 After months of NFU campaigning, the government has today announced changes to the threshold for inheritance tax for family farms. These changes mark a huge victory for British farmers. NFU President Tom Bradshaw explains. More 👉 ow.ly/TSFG50XNBE7

Is there any Labour MP who is not claiming they were always against taxing family farms? What a shame that only 1 @MCSavours had the courage to vote against. Such hypocrisy!

@Minette_Batters' Farming Profitability Review is an important report underlining the need to work more closely with the farming sector. Today I am launching a Farming and Food Partnership Board giving the sector a voice at the heart of government. gov.uk/government/new…

300mtr of Supreme Duo Mattress installed in Devon sold by @CowPlan and the Cows 🐄 are already loving their new beds #cowschoose

“You don’t have to listen to me. You don’t even have to listen to the farmers out there. You don’t have to listen to the president of the NFU. But why do you not listen to your own party colleagues?” - LibDem MP Alistair Carmichael. Starmer’s arrogance will be his downfall. 🙏🏽

🗣️ "The decision this week to place last-minute restrictions on the right of farmers to protest in London on the day of the Budget was regrettable, particularly as the imposition came so late in the day." READ MORE: ow.ly/lSCp50Xyy7T

Let’s be clear Farmers didn’t want to be in London today Livestock to feed,fields to tend,families to look after. But what @uklabour is doing to our countryside,rural economy&their families is criminal. The anguish on our patriarchs & matriarchs UNFORGIVABLE #axethefamilyfarmtax

This Christmas, give the best Christmas present to British farmers. Buy British farm food wherever possible - ideally from independent farm shops or directly from your local farmers. This website helps you locate your local farms selling local food. produceandprovide.co.uk

Police out arresting hard working farmers whilst those climbing monuments & graffiti-ing in face masks & hoodies walk free. It makes me so sad 😞

Today is the last day to accept your Grant Funding Agreement (GFA) for the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2025 Productivity and Slurry grants. Sign in to the Farming Investment Fund service using this link to accept your GFA 👉 rpagrants.defra.gov.uk/welcome/

I sit in Parliament listening to these ministers, and it’s all just so depressing - the vast majority of them have never run a business, and it SHOWS. You would not believe how bad it is. They think ‘work’ means turning up to an office between 9 and 5, answering a few emails, and going home at the end of the day. Nice lunch break, few coffees away from the desk, probably a smoking break or several. It doesn’t - not for the millions of men and women who actually create the wealth that funds the state. Running a small business isn’t a job. It’s a way of life. It is life. It’s 24/7/365. It’s relentless. You are the accountant, HR department, compliance officer, cleaner, marketer, and customer service team - all in one. There’s no sick pay, no safety net, and no taxpayer-funded pension waiting for you. Holiday? Good luck. If you do manage to get away, it’s checking the phone all day, every day. Wife/husband obviously getting pissed off. We’ve all been there... It’s all on you. Every invoice chased, every tax deadline met, every bit of red tape navigated is on you. And if you make one mistake, one error, one small slip-up, the state comes after you - in a relentlessly efficient manner that is never afforded to us when we ask questions of it. Most MPs have no idea what that feels like. They just don’t. We’re going to see more of this in the budget I’m sure. More hurt. More pain. More tax. They don’t get it. They don’t understand that when a small business owner gets hit with another tax, it’s not absorbed by a ‘budget’ - it’s taken straight out of their family’s pocket. There is no ‘deficit’ in the business world - that’s called going bust. And they certainly don’t understand what real risk looks like. Politicians can vote through a policy on Monday and forget it by Tuesday - a small business owner lives with the consequences of that policy for years, decades. The MP monthly salary is safe. It always has been. In the public sector before, and in the public sector after - if not that, some charity/NGO funded entirely by the public sector. GET A REAL JOB. If MPs actually spent a week running a small firm - paying suppliers, tackling VAT, navigating health and safety law, sorting out HR issues, chasing clients for payment, trying to expand while staying compliant with everything from GDPR to local planning regulations - they’d legislate very differently. I can promise you that. They’d realise that most of Britain’s problems could be solved by the state doing less, not more. Cutting tax. Simplifying regulation. Slashing back the HRification of the country. Trusting people who actually produce things to get on with it. Instead, we have a political class that talks endlessly about ‘growth’ while brutally punishing the only people capable of delivering it - especially going after the family businesses/farms, which is a particularly spiteful policy decision. Small business owners are people who work harder than almost anyone in Parliament could imagine - and who are treated worse for it. Britain’s small businesses don’t succeed because of politicians, they survive in spite of them.

Speaking after hosting the Food Security Minister Dame Angela Eagle on @HughLoweFarms in Kent, NFU President Tom Bradshaw (@ProAgriLtd) has urged the new Defra team to work with farmers to build a more resilient and productive food system in Britain.

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