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Farmers Protest Again In Shrewsbury
Shropshire Star
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10/01/2025
Farmers Protest Again In Shrewsbury
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00:00
Good morning, my name's Alan Hughes. I'm a tenant farmer from Lentadine on the Shropshire-Herritshire border.
00:06
We are a tenant farm running 300 acres, we have 65 which we own and even us are being hit by the inheritance tax.
00:14
Alongside this and the government's crippling greening taxes and reducing the payments they get us to produce food at a loss,
00:23
we are not able to continue in this manner.
00:26
I am running two farm diversifications just to break even.
00:30
No other industry would create a product at a loss and be told by its government to do that, to feed their country
00:37
and run other businesses just to cover feeding this country for free which we are incredibly proud to do.
00:43
So today I am at Shrewsbury Livestock Market with the farmers ready to roll out in protest around Shrewsbury
00:50
alongside 50 plus other protests in this country which are spontaneously going at the same time for the same cause.
00:57
We will continue to do this on an ever increasing and longer standing basis until the government comes to negotiations with us.
01:05
We have requested it to the MPs and the government since early December and had no response.
01:11
So we are going to stand for our industry.
01:14
The question I ask you is this, if somebody told you they were going to take five generations of work off you,
01:20
your home, your livelihood, not just of yourselves but of your parents and your children,
01:26
would you sit back and do nothing or would you be standing alongside saying enough is enough?
01:32
This country deserves quality food at affordable prices, not us all having to go to food banks
01:38
and farmers deserve to be paid a profit for the food we produce.
01:43
While the supermarkets make billions, we are going out of business.
01:47
For every pound invested in farming, the rural economy gets £7 from us spending and investing in machinery.
01:56
That's a government statistic which is backed by all their grants and funding schemes.
02:01
Now we have got over 24 agricultural machinery depots alone gone bust in the last 12 months
02:08
because we can't afford to be leasing new equipment.
02:11
A lot of us don't own these machines, we can't afford to, they are leased or on lease hire
02:16
and because we can't afford to invest and grow food efficiently,
02:19
the entire rural economy is collapsing around us and the national economy as a result.
02:25
Our question is this, do you want to see a strong Britain with good food security and quality food at affordable prices?
02:32
If so, support your farmers because we are supporting you.
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