Tim Young

Just been quoted £1.40/l for red diesel - more than double what we paid in December and far closer to the derv price - who is making money out of this? It’s certainly not me!

Big concerns about water abstraction licence reform…

@aviationarchive We occasionally pull up the old lines on a field that used to be a grass runway

The Brits love their fire. During WWII, Britain's FIDO system cleared deadly fog from RAF airfields by igniting petrol pipes along runways, creating fiery walls that lifted mist for safe takeoffs/landings. required 100K+ gallons/hour but enabled 2,500 ops & saved ~10K lives.👀

It’s been a busy few weeks with onion and grape #harvest25 all happening at once - half of @BrecksVineyard is being hand picked the rest had this special treatment - what a machine! #englishwine

5 years in the planning and 29 months of growing and we’ve harvested our first grapes @BrecksVineyard - so proud of family Young, team effort pays off! #englishwine #harvest25

Something quite therapeutic about #onions being loaded into store…

The Great Agricultural Gamble……. Farming businesses have been disadvantaged whilst trying to produce food, and we wanted to write about it. Myself & Bradley Hurn have put pen to paper on how we see changes in policy have affected farming businesses at the coal face. Plz share

From early mornings to drivetime radio, #BBCFarmwatch has been packed with NFU voices from across the country🧑‍🌾 From grassroot members to our officeholders Tom Bradshaw (@ProagriLtd), David Exwood (@DavidatWestons) and @RachelHallos - thank you to everyone who took part 👏

4 weeks to the day we are back irrigating after @EnvAgency relaxed the cessation order - that 4 weeks will have had a huge hit on yields, aim now to keep crop going for as long as poss. Night time only means some late night moves #harvest25 @NFUtweets

Common @UKLabour have the common decency to at least have an open debate about this and look at the alternatives that @NFUtweets and @ProagriLtd have suggested

Just home from a week of holiday, and it rained…. Back to a letter from @EnvAgency suggesting we still can’t irrigate - now because there are weeds & fish in the man-made channel we abstract from. Blood pressure returned to pre-holiday levels within minutes of opening the door

The impact summary and draft legislation has been issued for the #FamilyFarmTax, and it is paper thin. There are no improvements to the proposal, and it appears to be being introduced as expected. The statement suggests 2,000 deceased estates every year will pay more tax. Over a 30 year generation, without additional work to reorganise your estate, that's 60,000 people who will be impacted directly with higher inheritance tax bills (although behavioural change is likely to reduce both the people paying higher inheritance tax, and the amount of tax this will raise). The statement recognises that "The measure will have an impact on families going through bereavement and those planning for succession, where the estate has an increased Inheritance Tax liability as a result of this measure." However it goes on dismissively to say "How individuals structure their business and agricultural assets in response to this measure, including succession planning, will depend on their personal circumstances." There is no recognition of the impact on businesses previously seeking to invest for growth, their desire to continue in farming (or business), or the affordability of the measures. For those families put in the situation where they will lose their livelihood across generations due to the unaffordability of the charges, the best the Treasury can muster is "The policy is not expected to have a significant impact on family formation, family stability or family breakdown." On Food Security, it states that any impact will be minimal and changes to IHT don't impact the UK's ability to source imports from international markets. I will need to review the technical legislation more carefully, but as it stands this is the pre-existing proposal being brought in unaltered.

Omitting the impact on mental health and family cohesiveness from the Treasury’s assessment of this policy is a critical failure in the legislative process. Ignoring those aspects when the risks have been repeatedly stressed by professionals, industry bodies and politicians makes a mockery of the system.

@ChrisTurves @EnvAgency Damage mostly done i think, water would obviously help but can’t get anything out of @EnvAgency

@timyoung82 @EnvAgency You do seem to be getting the rough end of the deal this season, 15mm here over the weekend, abstraction restrictions lifted yesterday. (We were on 4 nights)

Come on @EnvAgency there had been widespread rainfall across the south level catchment but only 7mm on our farm - we desperately need to react quickly and allow irrigation to save what marketable crop we have left. #FoodSecurity #backbritishfarming

Others in the catchment have been allowed to irrigate for 3 nights a week but we remain on complete ban, the EA are currently ‘reviewing’ the river with ecologists despite that never being the driver of the ban on this man-made flood relief channel.

We need rain desperately but not this sort of rain!!! FFS!

Farmer's frustration at sudden ban on abstracting water for drought-hit onion fields ift.tt/sCDAr3I

Well done @timyoung82 For raising the issue for UK vegetable growers of instant @EnvAgency irrigation abstraction stop orders. Serious impact on in season UK veg production. Could have been flagged/managed better & earlier with other season restrictions bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…