Owen Piper

@Davidburrs 🙏

Great start to the week for UK Feed Wheat (LWX26). We’ve officially punched through that £185 resistance level and confirmed our Wave 3 move! Elliott Wave calculations, this is usually the strongest part of the trend. With the price currently sitting at £186, our next big sights are set on £193 and that major £198.50 target. #Wheat #Bullish

@StuartMaggs Very generous of you to use their false data! What a mess they’ve made for themselves. Thanks for the reply

@MApiperandson They will, because if they didn’t then why would people be so upset about them? But whether they actually generate net revenue is a different question. I was using Treasury’s own analysis above, so it can’t dispute them.

Abolishing the proposed APR/BPR changes would reduce the updated fiscal headroom in 29/30 by about 10%, while simultaneously promoting investment and growth across the huge range of owner-managed businesses. The Treasury should be pressured to justify why it is not doing this.

Do get in touch or pass this opportunity on to anyone you know might be interested!

@Wyefarm Highly recommend v12 telecom, multi network sims- charles@v12.co.uk

RVT's bankruptcy meaning that my RTK GPS would stop working because they're not paying the Sim card bill wasn't on my 2025 bingo card but here we are. (cut an old sim card up, popped it in & we're off)

@Davidburrs @EdwdPrice Is it naive of me to suggest that a base of £180 has anything to do with cost of production?

@EdwdPrice Yes i agree and the market has been oversold for some time and it had started to form a base at the £180 level.

Wheat November closing at £184.75 up £3.95 and in the process gap filling and printing a large positive candle breaking the £180 level. My Plan as before is I am looking for 3 green candles above the £180 level this will then activate the £200 target. #Wheat

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Chicken is more expensive in the States than in the UK, so there isn’t even the economic market forces to enable importation, why is it even a debate? Could always find ways to support British farmers to produce an even safer and higher standard product instead?

A chlorine wash can kill campylobacter so perhaps we should import safe American chicken? mol.im/a/14662985

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Regardless of the morality of the technique, if British farmers cannot produce (any product) to the same standards then the importation of a product that’s cheaper and illegal to replicate here undermines our homegrown food security.

Why should British consumers be made to pay more for chicken? Chlorine washes are safely used on salads so this is pure protectionism that makes the cost of living higher. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

@kenyanpigfarmer Craftsman 🤯👏👌

Butchering a pork middle into a boneless loin & belly for bacon curing & leg steaks off the chump. #butchery

@herdyshepherd1 Thank you for this.

I wrote a little thing about working with my daughter plough.com/en/topics/just…

@RupertLowe10 -Level playing field with imports -cost and access to labour- hand in hand with rural connectivity and cost of housing. -mechanisms to protect farm businesses from wildly fluctuating input and output prices, as well as weather related yields -schemes to encourage new entrants

We shouldn't just be scrapping the inheritance tax assault on farmers, the entire approach to British agriculture needs to change. This attack from Reeves did not come at a positive time for farmers, in fact it's one of the worst I have known during my time in agriculture. It has been brutal. As anyone with any experience will agree... What needs to change? Number one priority? Of course, scrap the tax changes. If it were up to me, I'd abolish inheritance tax for everyone, not just the farmers. But separate to that debate, we need a whole raft of proactive policies to reinvigorate British farming. This has been entirely forgotten thanks to Reeves. We've all been so preoccupied battling her spitefulness, nothing else has even been discussed. Suggestions... - Stop supermarkets from exploiting farmers with unfair contracts. - Get the public sector buying British, enforced 75% for schools, hospitals and other institutions. - Simplify the process for British farmers to bid for contracts. Give priority to our farms. - A national 'buy British' campaign. Be proud, shout about it. Put our flag at the heart of it. - Enforce clear labelling. Brits want to buy British, make that as easy as possible. - Encourage diversification. - Massively simplify planning, reduce the power of the council bureaucrats. - Boost farming apprenticeships, our industry is dying off. - A red tape bonfire visible from space. - Let farmers FARM. - Ensure every farming policy is rural-proofed, with genuine input from actual farmers, not just urban civil servants. British farming should be a global success story, not an industry in relentless decline. We've spent months fighting to put British farming back to what was already an incredibly perilous position. Reeves, Starmer, Lammy, Rayner. They do NOT understand farming. As one of the very few farming MPs, I can promise you that. Nor do they really care. We need to overhaul the ENTIRE approach to British farming, starting with overturning these tax changes and getting farmers back to a very weak square one. See you all at the protest later.

The likes of Dyson and Clarkson probably can afford to pay the new rate of APR but wouldn’t be able to on just farming income, but I’m bloody glad they are standing side by side with us family farms and helping to raise awareness of this proposed destructive tax.

@CA_TimB Hi Tim, can you enlighten me please as to the influence Dan N carries on the topic and the significance of his new proposal/line of thinking? Is he particularly close to Treasury/Govt…can we take it as a genuine positive light in the tunnel?

@DefraGovUK @DanNeidle @NFUtweets @CLAtweets Hopefully the #FamilyFarmTax can be resolved but it has terrified and hurt thousands of people. We need a better, collaborative way of developing rural policy as @CAupdates has been saying for decades and will continue to campaign for 9/ ENDS

The Treasury’s chief cheerleader @DanNeidle executing a rapid reverse ferret on the #FamilyFarmTax Who would have known that farmers might have understood the economics of farming? 🧵 1/n

I wrote a thing. (And, for clarity, I don’t want any kind of revolt, I want to stay home and do my job) unherd.com/2024/11/a-farm…

@KemiBadenoch @Conservatives Rishi let you borrow his Barbour jacket then, communal ‘rural day trip’ outfit is it?

British farmers need our support in the wake of Keir Starmer’s cruel attack on family farms. Go to stopthefarmtax.com

@TheSnowDreamer Kent/East Sussex

October 2024 will finish drier than average in London about 88% of 1991-2020 average, not particularly deficient. 2024 will end an unprecedented 5 consecutive Octobers (2019-2023) with >80mm of rainfall the previous longest streak is only 2. Daily rainfall been kept since 1948. Recent Octobers have been astonishing for unsettled weather.

@DavidButler34 @OOOfarmer Presumably he was allowing for having to take out a 25yr loan/mortgage to pay the IHT bill.

@OOOfarmer Also curious why you spread the liability over 30 years, not 10?

Predictably hysterical on here. £1m seems like a very low number, but no, this will not end farming in the UK. There are other countries that have inheritance tax, and they still farm.

@HawfordFarm Presumably there could be CGT on the bit they have to sell to pay the IHT? Therefore depends on when it was originally bought, previous inheritance transfers etc, could easily be much more than 10ha required to be sold in your example.

So this actually means a 100ha ( small farm) could be faced with an IHT bill of £200,000, more or less equal to having to sell 10ha or 10% of their land ( before any unused main residence allowances). Is that right ? Some careful planning will be required. #farming

@Appleton_Dairy Great numbers Chris, lot of hard work for those!

Calving stats so far: 110 calved 114 calves (including DOA) DOA 4.48% (including 2 sets of early twins right at the start) Twinning rate 3.6% Assisted Calvings 0.9% Milk Fever 0.9% 21% calved by day 8 Let’s hope things carry on like this! #teamdairy #calving24

@WilliamBatt5 Hear hear 👏

I truly believe you can have both, productive food producing land hand in hand with biodiversity rich habitats. Walking through the field margins and it is absolutely teaming with butterfly’s, spiders, bumblebees, leverets and fawns to name but a few. Public money for public good