Beef and Arable Farmer - Lincolnshire producer of cold pressed rapeseed oil
Lincolnshire
Joined August 2011
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Riley Taylor retweeted
£240m…….. That’s the entire new SFI budget Defra reckons Britain’s farmers are worth, and Window 1 will be gone in minutes.
Defra’s own payroll? £1.8bn a year. Over seven times more spent on the staff than on the farmers actually growing the food.
So here’s a real saving Labour, scrap Defra altogether. Sack the lot, bank the billions, and drop the pretence any of this was ever about backing British farming.
£240m says you were never serious ☹️
@reformparty_uk @UKLabour @TheFarmingForum @agricontract @loosecollie @wheat_daddy
@PhilipCaseFW @Merry_Meredith @TWBFarms @NFUtweets This is an absolutely horrific way to distribute support. Like throwing bread to the starving. Does @Defra not realise the first 600 applications in the first five minutes will swallow the Tier 1 budget? defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/202…
Riley Taylor retweeted
I know lots of people will be out over the weekend enjoying the sunshine.
It’s important to stay safe in the heat - so check out the guidance below before heading out.
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Riley Taylor retweeted
The whole political system in the uk is a shambles and needs an overhaul with new regs in place. If businesses were run like Governments try to run our country, they wouldn’t last 5 mins.
1) In PMQ’s, the PM should answer the question and they should not have prior knowledge of it. It should be done off the cuff. If I’m asked a question about my farm I don’t read the answer from a file.
2) Any political party should be made to stick to their pre election Manifesto. Saying they are going to do things if they win but no intention of doing said things, should not be an option.
Riley Taylor retweeted
A rare watch in modern politics; a principled stand. And how much easier to watch than the usual evasion.
Government scores another own goal by suspending the whip & creating a news cycle on an issue it keeps trying to bury but that keeps burning through political capital.
Riley Taylor retweeted
Analysis by Land App showing where 4,520 CS Mid-Tier farm environmental schemes covering >51,000ha arable land expire on 31st Dec due to government’s suspension of SFI.
Decades of taxpayer investment in nature to be erased while ministers ponder.
thelandapp.com/2025/09/22/th…
Riley Taylor retweeted
Since it's conference season, here's a scene from the 2023 @NFUtweets conference when @Keir_Starmer came into the press room after addressing farmers at the conference. Here's a brief reminder of what he told farmers - enjoy 🧵(1/7)
Riley Taylor retweeted
Mbeumo misses! WE'VE DONE IT!!!!!!!
Mariners: ✅✅❌✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
United: ✅✅✅✅❌✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅❌
#GTFC
Riley Taylor retweeted
With badgers already proven to have TB on their land, I guess it was just a matter of time. Devastating news, but something that's mirrored throughout the farming community day-in, day-out. Badgers need controlling, it's as simple as that.
Riley Taylor retweeted
We’re in the same boat Tom, heard nothing from @Ruralpay on any hint of roll over, fallow plots for #lapwing, #skylark plots, rare arable flower margins, wild birds food mix, pollen and nectar etc- all under threat of going. 25years of stewardship 🤯
For 1st time in c15 years we’re not going to be paid for overwinter bird food and shelter. CS ag’ment comes to an end Dec’25 & @DefraGovUK has ended SFI. So should we take it back to arable rotation or plant & nurture it unfunded? Need to plan the autumn/winter work
Riley Taylor retweeted
Why?
Because it’s about protecting the job of one person over the generations of livelihoods and hard graft of tens of thousands who day in day out produce your food.
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Ask yourselves WHY @RachelReevesMP has refused to meet farmers, the NFU, CLA, EXPERTS for NINE long months since her DISASTROUS budget.
She knows the #familyfarmtax AND #familyfirmtax is morally reprehensible. And she KNOWS when quizzed, projected figures WILL FALL DOWN. 1/2
Riley Taylor retweeted
Absolute rubbish @SteveReedMP You slashed the delinked payments last year by 76 % and have capped this years payment at £600. The SFI is now a shadow of its former self to new applicants, taxed pick up trucks and fertiliser, increased NI, got rid of the market for 2m tons of wheat because of the trade deal with US and imported ethanol, the list goes on. And only yesterday we hear that when our food runs out, you say it can be imported. If that’s your way of support, I’d hate to see your list for when you don’t want to support farming.
Riley Taylor retweeted
Unhelpfully for UK farmers - and the Prime Minister - the USA says at the ongoing press conference that the trade deal will "exponentially increase export of US beef" to the UK.
Riley Taylor retweeted
I’m really struggling with the idea that some of us are meant to deliver net zero by changing our healthy diets whilst others are building airports and roads and emissions heavy infrastructure
That’s not a deal I’m signing up to - and neither is anyone else, as far as I can see
