Small family farm-big hitting budget

We wanted to share some thoughts alongside all of the coverage- not to add to the noise, but to add colour. We appreciate there's lots of opinions being shared, so here's a simple one from us:
Where others might find profit from owning land, farmers find purpose in preserving and protecting it. A sense of guardianship that keeps the countryside the countryside. That’s what this budget threatens.
A very real difference, and definitely worthy of your thought.
#iht #budget2024 #budget #farming #farm #farmlife #farmers #farmersprotestslive
Produced By: Rufus Denne
Filmed By: Josh Aarons (joshaarons.com)

[@deliacatsburg109]

Looking out the window of the plane when i come home to visit my Mum in the UK I nearly always shed a tear for the beauty and greenery that I see below me. Every farmer is my hero. The hours the stress and the costs that they take on to provide food and to care for the "Garden of Eden" we call home is amazing. We need that type of dedication in our leaders to take us through to the future where farmers can be respected for what they do. If our mental health is to be protected than we need to protect the land and we need to protect those that take care of it for us.

[@jessiemacintosh6627]

Keep going please, we depend on you farmers for our future. X

[@flankfarm]

Heyaaaa 🫶 Thank you for the support !!

[@lydia4127]

So sorry for you and all the other family farms in the UK😥 I do always love your mom's perspective in her chats. Look forward to you bringing them back❤

[@flankfarm]

So appreciative of your support Lydia! We’ll bring them back for sure 🫶

[@JoshAarons]

THIS is important.

[@bipslone8880]

If you voted for Brexit you deserve this tax

[@sheelaghomalley5459]

My goodness I'm so delighted to see you both xx I'm just sorry that it is a Draconian budget that has brought us back to o Us. Sarah and Ru, we've missed you

[@flankfarm]

Thank you !! Great to be back 🫡

[@patrick-rt8py]

Great to see you guys back ❤

[@flankfarm]

Thank you Patrick !

[@alanplatts2635]

Sarah is a star,I miss your barn chats ❤

[@flankfarm]

Thank you 🙏🏼 we’ll be back

[@johndeere1951a]

God bless your mum ✌️ Have her talk about her parents, her grand parents. Her stories and memories will explain the importance , the value, the blood, sweat and tears over the decades to put food on your neighbors tables, 3 times everyday. Have mum get a lawyer to write up a Trust to protect your farm for the future. Its the prudent thing to do. Concerned from New Hampshire 🗽 👨‍🌾 🇺🇲

[@flankfarm]

Love that, what a beautiful chat that would be! A trip down memory lane, I’ll pitch that to her - thank you for the idea

[@paulthompson8467]

Very well said Ru and Sarah so glad to see you back ive really missed your videos.last Monday night i attended the ufu meeting in Lisburn there were 6000 people there was amazing hopefully the effort of many folk to protest will not be in vain 🙂take care👍

[@marianneellman1139]

How smart your Mum!!? Laws are not supporting the family that has done the work!.... The simple farmers are what will wake people up! It is not about money!... It is about keeping connected to your village,supporting our villages to give total support❤ Mum knows 👌 best!.. Yes it is about what family s can produce, that takes special motivation..... Keep pushing forward. ❤ Nothing came from giving up! You guys are spreading very important information ❤. Xxxx

[@dawnyWestScotland]

Hard workers farmers! 💛💙💙💙

[@flankfarm]

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[@Michelle-zu3dl]

This is heartbreaking 💔 Thanks for sharing Ru & Sarah- we stand with you & hope for the best outcome for future farmers ❤️💐🐄

[@bipslone8880]

If you voted for Brexit you deserve this tax

[@gerardmcnamara9997]

What a great lady,mind ur Mum her heart is in right place, Gerry, from Ireland.

[@flankfarm]

Thank you Gerry !! 🙏

[@Barbara-py4jv]

Love your mom, strong woman.

[@flankfarm]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[@paulm9517]

You both are lovely real people, thanks for adjusting us. Keep it up you have at least my support .

[@flankfarm]

And we’re so appreciative of it! Thank you 🙏

[@colmanlong1032]

Mum's the word,she knows best.A wonderful lady.

[@flankfarm]

GREAT to hear from you as always !!!

[@LiveSteamNick]

That’s it,,, I’ll be up on the weekend for some eggs and veg!! Long live Hedgerows farm!!! Little Nick

[@flankfarm]

Glad to hear it ! Thank you 🙏🏼

[@jzlz2806]

Hi dear Johs And Sarah And Flank Farm. I am so knocked by this news and thank you for this blog. I want to say “like” but no it’s too sad news isn’t it guys Ps u know I studied Farming and volunteer at Two Farms. I have been a carer yes that is hard work. But Farming is isolating Cold And blooming tough work. And putting food in Great Britain for Export And for common sense makes Sense. It’s mad Take Care x

[@tomheath5014]

Great video, very well put together

[@flankfarm]

Thank you Tom !!

[@robinpbradford]

Well said young man.

[@flankfarm]

Thank you Robin !

[@GeoffreyMoore-i9k]

Excellent I've missed you on this platform Seems to be the government's policy to turn the countryside into wind and solar farms, building sites for industry and housing, rewilded and allow us to be at the mercy of other country imports Where does all the other taxes go, perhaps they need to look at the top heavy civil service, NHS, government. Too many chiefs not enough Indians Your mum speaks far more sense than anyone in Westminster for sure Take care of each other Geoff

[@JerryReddington]

Keep up the good work.

[@flankfarm]

Thank you Jerry ! Appreciate the support

[@jimmy.....9446]

Well done Ru. I’m Irish and this doesn’t effect me but what your mother said is the truth 👏👏👏

[@flankfarm]

Thanks Jimmy !!!

[@HenrijsEglitis]

Best wishes from Latvia 🙏

[@lionelmarytravels6003]

I was only saying to Mary a few days ago. We haven't had anything from Flank Farm for a while and there you both were. Unfortunately, sad times for the future of family farms, and I reckon your mum summed the situation up very well. Now we'll have to wait and see how long Labour can survive!

[@nancysmith-baker1813]

Hello good to see you been awhile . This has devistated so many . I am so sorry about this . Been watching uk farming for several years . Your series was one of the first . Ive learned alot from you folk . I t is hard work .always a challenge . Dont know what to say . So hard and sad 😢.

[@flankfarm]

Thank you Nancy ! Really love reading your comments - so many over the years, and I’m thankful for your support !!!

[@nancysmith-baker1813]

@flankfarm your welcome . Hi to your mum . Miss you two. Thankyou take care .

[@shirleydrury5565]

We need to stand by are farmers ❤ stand your ground Britain❤ PLEASE❤👍👍👍

[@flankfarm]

Thank you Shirley, wonderful to see you in the comments

[@adamfontana537]

Great to see you all back. But very sad about this news😮

[@flankfarm]

Great to hear from you Adam!!! Thank you for your support, hope all is well with your Dexters 🙌

[@adamfontana537]

@ the Dexters are doing well and all looking very pregnant. We expect calves in January/feb. It’s been a dry winter and spring here in Victoria so not looking forward to summer

[@welshhomestead]

It's a great video - really well made as well - can I just say one small thing? this might have been camera perspective - but at 3:03 it looks like your mum walks under the loader with a bale on it to open that gate - if she is doing that can you please ask her to leave a bit more space so she doesnt? if a hydraulic hose lets go when she's opening that gate it would be catastrophic - apologies if it's just an illusion on the film - I wanted to flag it. All the best to you and your mum from our small farm in wales!

[@aletheiai]

In line with the long tradition of British class resentments, in-power-by-default Labour looked around and thought, "let's make the landowner class pay." They should redefine the "landowner class" as thousands-of-acres aristocrats and thousands-of-acres factory-farming corporations.

[@sheelaghomalley5459]

Well said Sarah xx😢

[@kevinarmstrong3125]

well said Ru

[@flankfarm]

Thank you Kevin, it’s a tough topic to approach and we really appreciate the support !

[@rickymanuel4237]

That's just like over here in America, the government inheritance tax is so high you can't take over the farm and every thing has to be sold.

[@bobuncle8704]

Sadly, in this day and age, most people can’t understand the emotional indebtedness to our ancestors, and all the hard work of our previous generations. There’s a specific word for that, but I can’t remember it at the moment. Most go through life without a true sense of belonging, and the desire to pass on heritage. What this policy has done is to completely remove emotion from it all. People who’ve made a living off of taxes, are trying to dictate policy without any comprehension of past, present, future. And to top it all off, with the destruction of the family farm, it won’t even be a drop in the bucket compared to all the overspending by the government.

[@Gwril76]

Lovely video and good to hear your views on this current government mess. I really hope the small farm / food producers are looked after. All best guys 🚜🇬🇧

[@flankfarm]

Thank you ! 🙏🏼

[@joannewatson4040]

The us inheritance tax is the death of most of our farms here. My grandfather so old most of his ranch before he died very sad.

[@flankfarm]

Thank you for leaving a mark here, great to hear from you Joanne !!

[@mclarenrob2]

One day they'll wish they never turned on farmers when it's too late and millions go hungry.

[@jackb4976]

I wholeheartedly agree with your take on genuine, hardworking, small scale farmers. We live next door to a farm and the hours, conditions and care the farmers have for their operation is amazing. The issue is that the benefits you rightly receive have been jumped upon by millionaire charlatans *cough* Clarkson, Dyson *cough* and the govt is right to find a way to stop this. I agree they need a better way to judge between small family farms and millionaire landowners but it’s hard to get behind the farmers cause when the community seems to have embraced Clarkson of all people as their spokesperson and hero rather than outing him as an obvious embodiment of the problem.

[@flankfarm]

Really interesting take, thanks so much for taking the time to comment - loved reading your perspective !

[@KeithHill-wc3ew]

This must be fete I was only thinking a couple of days ago we have not heard from you two for months it’s great to know you are both well,however I feel for you having to put up with all the problems this Labour government is throwing at you. But be mindful you are not alone and we need you farmers every day of our lives,I know its difficult but try and keep positive and hopefully eventually common sense will prevail.

[@compassroses]

Sitting on the cliff edge of another global conflict, the government, in its infinite myopia, has failed to remember the lessons of WW2's rationing, threatened imports, and Dig (up the rose bushes) For Victory campaign.

[@Drew-b9p]

A brilliant short film which actually alerts us to the fact that this policy is in many ways ultra capitalist, though I can see why Jacob Rees Mogg calls it socialist but it is actually a strange combination.... (perhaps a combination known as Communism)

[@cassieoz1702]

I follow "Farming Explained" who has covered this issue well. The tax assessment is capital based but the payment is paid from farm income. Utterly warped perspective.

[@flankfarm]

Cassie!!! Some incredibly smart people covering the issue, I just couldn’t find much on why the land is more precious to farmers than its monetary value, which certainly feels like an important point

[@cassieoz1702]

@flankfarm Ollie on that other channel is a 3rd generation farmer, and university history grad and does fascinating tirades on the history of agricultural political history (especially 20th century as post WW2), the origins of the organic movement and where the 'gentry land owners' fit in. Of no real relevance to me but absolutely fascinating nevertheless.

[@dennismabb1129]

Stop inheritance tax on everything The government should not Profit off what you worked hard for

[@johndeere1951a]

Attention farmers, protect , preserve your farms buy establishing A Trust for your family. It's crucial that you do it. Do it while you can Now. Even with your 7 year rule, DO IT today. No local farms = high priced imported food. New Hampshire 🚜🐷🐄🐔🌽👨‍🌾🗽🇺🇲. ✌️

[@flankfarm]

Thank you !! Great to see your input here

[@davidjones190]

Farmers can quite easily go to the bank using their assets to buy more land, so therefore they can go to the bank and borrow the money to pay the tax once in every generation

[@millzwood2399]

The Replacement! Make way for The New Britons!

[@atticuskilby515]

One has to ask, why is it that the small businesses must take all the brunt of the tax load in proportion to what they make? I think we all know the answer. There is no shortage of funds, but a great mis-management of funds within the government. Much more financial attention is placed on outside sources, other endeavors in other countries, rather than taking care of their own.

[@MadhouseGaming]

I think its more so the rich and powerful get the chance too buy farm land that would never ever be sold otherwise, if farmers families are going too have too sell off land too pay this tax, and they wouldnt even consider it before the tax was introduced, its a way too get hold of more land so the rich become even richer

[@TheFamilyFarm1]

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[@GubbFarm]

That is such a lovely video. What is sickening is that you and your Mum will have pay to taxes and the money will then be sent to farmers in Brazil etc. This is what happens when you put Rachael from Customer Services in charge of the economy.

[@flankfarm]

Really appreciate your kind words about the video Gubb Farm! Thanks for taking the time 🙌

[@janeharper9329]

it's ok it wont affect them ok 👌 👌

[@russellpetrie119]

no one should pay inheritance tax we pay enough when alive

[@piggyman1585]

♥️🇬🇧

[@Mike-k4e2i]

Very sad what Starmer doing but his day will come !. The idea is to give it all to their rich mates but who will work the land for them as cheaply as the farmers do it today ?

[@khitb77]

I think the decision to set the threshold as low as it is for agricultural property relief is a huge mistake. Family farms are vital to the future of the country. The changes in the Budget are only going to have negative effects on "small" farmers. I 100% support the likes of multi millionaire Clarkson, Dyson, and Lloyd-Webber paying IHT on the land they own, but not real farmers. It worries me what the government wants to achieve by forcing farmers to sell land!

[@russellpetrie119]

put 5p on the pound of income tax it might not be felt

[@Drew-b9p]

If you read the Communist manifesto there are a list of goals that Marx wanted to achieve.... Most are now in place. One of the remaining goals us to erase the difference between the towns and the countryside. One of the overall aims of his vision was, if you read carefully, to further enrich the bankers.

[@jimmason1072]

Open protest is the only way....

[@seadog6351]

Seems like the primary issue here is that farmers can't earn enough from the land to make their kids to want to be farmers. Is happening everywhere in the US as well and happened recently on my families farm. I feel like there should be an exemption for children who commit to working the land after it is handed down. If you aren't going to farm after your parents pass then it seems like land should be treated as any other form of property.

[@nancysmith-baker1813]

Yes well seid its a tax on every one .!!

[@flankfarm]

Thank you! That’s how I feel - I couldn’t think of another way of having so many incredible people, care so deeply, for such a huge part of this country.

[@nancysmith-baker1813]

@@flankfarm this is serious.and the public need to be aware and educated on how it will impact them if this goes through . The price and quality of food will be devastating. People really don't know . Thanks for all you have done .

[@alexcoffield6814]

Guardianship again! More like farmers are guarding their privileges and tax benefits

[@tomb2139]

small family farms will remain unaffected. sorry but i have no empathy for people who cant manage paying tax on assets over 3 million pounds. if you cannot manage a multimillion asset while 1/3 of children live in poverty in britain I dont know what to tell you. the uk also has some of the most ecologically dead ecosystems in the planet, in no small part due to farming practices, so no farmers do not protect the countryside

[@stuartfreestone560]

Shockingly bad news Hopefully common sense will prevail As the implications scenarios Aren’t positive One being The will be a glut of land up for sale - this’ll force the market price down foreign businesses will step in and buy large percentages Take control or British farming And as a result the government won’t see the tax revenue it’s counting on Its a lose lose

[@craigsanderson4330]

You are living in a different world to most people, good luck to you but I have zero sympathy. What nobody says is that many many people want to farm but it’s a closed shop, why didn’t you show your foreign workers? Give me a break.

[@ga4pro]

I am very sorry but this is next level stupidity. So millions kids start their lives with absolutely NOTHING. oh because I am a farmer, so my kid should have this land for free. NO, ma'am, your kid should go out and compete with the world and earn this farm penny by penny. Why when a British soldier dies, he wife has to pay inheritance tax. Why when policeman dies, his family have to pay tax. Why rich farmers should be allowed to get away? Owning a 1m asset is being rich. Most of us live on rent.. come to real England you lazy twigs. House and land prices MUST be brought down so new generations can afford.

[@Linda-u5x]

Wish I could go to work in clothes like that, out in the fresh air, it must be awful? I feel so lucky now in my overalls stood at a packing line for ten hours a night, and then back to the bedsit, I will try and send you some money.👍

[@matty506]

150 acres and you're making £17k a year profit? Probably not the running the place that well tbh. Lambs selling for £200 at the moment and you could raise 1000s in that space. £100k a year over 10 years so £10k a year. I spend £9k a year renting a bedroom. The lot of you don't know how lucky you are and probably got so used to the good life you've not bothered even trying to make more from it. Average acre per person in england is 0.5 so you've got 300x more than everyone else. Credit to your mum but maybe you should be helping to actually make a business from the blessing you've got as 150 acres for 1 lady to manage isn't going to return it's full potential. What I'd give to have your problems.

[@georgedoorley5628]

you do not farm. you will not raise 1000 of lambs on 150 acres .............a 200 lamb is a very heavy fat lamb that has been fed meal for quite a while

[@matty506]

@@georgedoorley5628 I don't but I work for farmers. As one said the money he's making on lambs another how he's getting £7 per acre to spray pesticides or something and hes doing a 1000 acres a week between him and his 3 employees another having a million pound house built and another saying how he gets £80 per acre every year from subsidises without even doing anything . I've literally heard and seen it with my own eyes. This of course all being said before the budget had been announced and while rishi was still in so now they're all skint. The lady in the video won't be the one paying it her son will and he seem very fit and able to me to manage £10k a year for 10 years while also having somewhere to live with no mortgage or rent. If any do actually go under from this it because they simply weren't capable and somebody else out there will be. Maybe a young farmer himself looking for some land to call his own that didn't have the fortune of being handed down to him.

[@georgedoorley5628]

@@matty506 if the place or part of it has to be sold .......I guarantee you that it will be purchased by a non farmer no young farmer will be able to outbid a retired professional or businessman ...... I agree with you that 10k per year for 10 years is not mad money ..........but its a different story when it gets up to 30 or 40 k. per year after tax ........ 10 years is a long voyage

[@jaytree6378]

Maybe 300 ewes year round on 150 acres. Typical earnings are about £50 per ewe according to ahdb. So that's £15k per year for a breeding sheep enterprise. £17k sound pretty good.

[@jaytree6378]

​@@georgedoorley5628the idea is that the retired businessman no longer has such a reason to want it

[@glengirot3087]

Cry me a river 😮🤔😅

[@AbcdEfgh-zp1sn]

Do farmers ever ever stop complaining. Literally the last 30 years all I've heard is farmers moaning

[@wyndhamhewlett8223]

GO HUNGRY LITTLE SHEEPE!!!!