Activists and the NFU insist Labour tax reforms aimed at the wealthy will also hurt smaller, poorer producers
A wave of wellies is preparing to pound the streets of Westminster on Tuesday, as groups of farmers bring their anger over the government’s
It prompted the usually mild-mannered president of the National Farmers’ Union , Tom Bradshaw, to accuse the government of not understanding farming, while warning that the measures will Morgan, 60, inherited her parents’ farm after both of them died in the last few years, and grows crops such as wheat, oats and barley. Until the– as is common in a sector with an ageing workforce – she was planning, in time, to pass the family 450-acre farm on to her 27-year-old son Josh.
Morgan and many others feel let down by the new crop of Labour MPs, many of whom were elected for the first time in July when Herefordshire cereal farmer Martin Williams, one of the organisers, said he had been moved to action after the budget measures became the latest event to affect food producers, following a string of challenges in recent years including extreme weather,Others are preparing for more militant action, among them Welsh farmer Gareth Wyn Jones, whose family has tended the same land for more than 375 years, but in more recent times has amassed a sizeable social media following.
The gloomy outlook for the rural economy is expected to be felt in Nottinghamshire later in the week when agricultural businesses bring their latest equipment to the Midlands machinery show.
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