Farmer, contractor, glass half full, bit chilled! Easingwold camel racing champion.
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David Blacker retweeted
I am sure you will have heard farmer's concerns about the harm your Government is doing to the industry with it's taxes and rhetoric. I hope you will discuss them with @RachelReevesMP and the treasury. Farmers grow food for the country's security making little profit, if any.
David Blacker retweeted
FAMILY FARM TAX: "The farmers' death tax is shabby, will stoke food price inflation and could seriously undermine this country's ability to feed itself"
"Labour's policies are ill-conceived and rushed, with a strong whiff of class prejudice, aimed at thousands of farming families perceived as wealthy but in reality seriously cash-strapped" @LiamHalligan
Inheritance Tax changes will:
❌ Destroy family farms
❌ Hammer rural communities
❌ Risk national food security
With our farmers #together
@FarmersToAction
Last bit mopped up. Love the early finish, yields not so much. #doone2025
David Blacker retweeted
We have an amazing Hospitality industry in the UK. If you want growth @Keir_Starmer then put us on a level playing field and see what we can achieve then!
Maybe brush up on maths over the summer break @RachelReevesMP
I’d start here. Think we’re way off laffer curves.
David Blacker retweeted
The Treasury’s family farm tax legislation, which is accompanied by an impact assessment, suggests there will be “no significant macroeconomic impacts” at all.
But a report says the reforms will cause over 200,000 job losses and cost nearly £2bn by 2030.
express.co.uk/news/politics/…
David Blacker retweeted
The economy could lose £14.9bn if the government follows through with #inheritancetax proposals, and more than 200,000 jobs could be lost according to CLA-backed survey from @FamilyBizUK & @CBItweets.
But how will your region be affected?
Find out here: cla.org.uk/news/the-true-cos…
David Blacker retweeted
Yorkshire to have £1bn wiped from economy due to inheritance tax changes, report says yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-…
David Blacker retweeted
Instead of raising £1.8 billion, the tax raid on farmers and family businesses is expected to cost the Treasury £2 billion!
Don’t they consult with business experts or independent economists before they introduce all these new taxes?
Sorry, stupid question.
David Blacker retweeted
🚜 Newly published research has found that flexible tyres & a rotary harrow can reduce soil compaction & surface runoff. Read more below ⬇️
Dedicated to our dear colleague Dr. Martyn Silgram, co-author & driving force behind this work who passed before he could see it published.
🎄CHRISTMAS CRACKER 🎄 #OpenAccess
Mitigation measures designed to reduce #soil compaction decrease surface runoff, soil erosion & phosphorus losses...
Quinton et al.🇬🇧
@John_Quinton @Enviroken @LancsUniLEC @Geog_UoD @JamesHuttonInst @ADASGroup
doi.org/10.1111/sum.13158
ALT Experimental treatments: VF tyre (left), rotary harrow (middle) and surface profiling roller (right).
Well that’s dry January buggered. Managed one day more than last year.!!
#hadaglassyesterday #bollockstoit
David Blacker retweeted
"Rachel Reeves is literally KILLING wildlife!" - I think Reeves, Starmer, and Ed Miliband in particular need to take a good listen to this man at the farmers' protest 👇
@DobbsandPolicy
David Blacker retweeted
And this: the soil carbon lost from 12,000 years of agriculture only adds up to about 13 years of recent fossil fuel use in terms of emissions.
plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.go…
You’re so stupid you’d try and drown a fish. Have you got a crystal ball that projects 30 years.
David Blacker retweeted
❌ As further details emerge it seems that Labour’s Family Farm Tax is being designed to hit even harder.
🥀 There is still time for Labour to u-turn on it, and they must, unless they want to leave not only broken promises but a broken farming industry.
As straight as a bull pissing down a dusty track. Shower of rain so harvest dragging into another week. #2024
Nowt i’d rather be doing on Saturday night. Just love peeling flat spring barley off the floor. 🙄 #sacktheagronomist #throughhimtothelions at least the sun was shining
