I fear that that there is currently a total lack of understanding of the economy relating to farming and current government policy will...

Protesting farmers just don't get it. They need to look at the winners.

Here I explain the reality of inheritance tax .   In 2007 I was outside my son’s school when I bumped into a local farmer – at least I...

“Only the richest estates will pay – not small, family farms.” This is the repeated phrase parroted by the Chancellor and other Labour...

My experience with Inheritance Tax and especially with Farm Inheritance Tax Relief is that it appears to be applied inconsistently and...

In the Chancellor's Autumn budget of 2024 changes were made to Inheritance tax Relief that reduced this relief on the value of both...

Many are aware of the World War 2 internment of Japanese in the USA due to the experience of George Takei and the play Allegiance. Few...

When I  describe Spalding as an industrial town people are generally surprised. We have an image of an industrial town being depicted as...

Every so often I share some writing that did not make the cut of Marsh Fen and Town. In this case  I look at land use, how agricultural...

In 2007 my late father-in-law John Wright pulled some old farm diaries out of his shed to show me. He allowed me to borrow them and I...

The value of both rare breeds and those maintaining them is vastly underappreciated to the detriment of our food security.

“There is no  habitat in Lincolnshire which can truly be described as natural unless it be the sandy and muddy foreshores of the coast....

I sat down and started writing a book in March 2022. The idea of a book was spawned just over thirty years ago when I was a young bank...

Down the side of Spalding's Civic Centre is a passageway called The Butter Market. Here is some of the history and the context in a...

I recently read a tweet that expressed the fear that every farmer feels this time of year: " Just totted up what we've spent on the...

Farming businesses have seen considerable rises in working capital requirements that is, the amount of cash required to see your...

2023 saw me living in Amble Northumberland for the first time having moved from my native Lincolnshire. In February I started to work...

The nature of farming is that often the Bank has a charge over a farmer’s home to support the business borrowing. This charge may be part...

Farmers are consistently being told to diversify their businesses and one of the most common forms of diversification is the rural...