A Yorkshire farmer’s daughter is touring England to help families with the conversations they avoid.
Farming families across England are being offered a practical day on the conversations most keep putting off: who does what, where the money goes, a change one person wants and another won’t hear of, the argument that’s been going round for years, and who takes over. The GRIP workshop visits 10 venues from Kent to Northumberland this November, supported by AHDB Beef & Lamb.
Farms are being asked to change faster than ever. In the space of a year there have been inheritance tax changes, an SFI26 application window that shut in under six hours, and margins that leave little room for error. Every change means a decision, and every decision means a conversation someone would rather not have. Succession is one of them: NFU Mutual found half of UK farms still have no succession plan, rising to 57% among cattle and sheep farmers.