Budget 2025 - where was farming??

Tom Scrope
Nov 26th, 2025
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2 min read
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Just had a quick look through the budget documents for references to farming and agriculture.

Summary below (its doesn't take very long 🤨 😅)

Unlike last year when there were lots of farming announcements this year its pretty thin stuff.

Despite all the lobbying of NFU (National Farmers'​ Union) - Tom Bradshaw, The CLA - Gavin Lane, HM Opposition - Robbie Moore MP, and many others, farming seems pretty non-existent on Rt Hon Rachel Reeves's list of priorities.

The word farming does come up four times, but sadly all 4 are farms of the wind 🌬️or solar ☀️ variety rather than 🚜 🌾 🐄 🐑 !

Three highlighted extracts from the Budget 2025 document where the word 'farms' refers to solar farms in East Yorkshire, wind farms in the Irish Sea and an Orkney wind farm
Extracts from the Budget 2025 document - every mention of 'farms' refers to solar or wind farms.

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The only mentions of 'agriculture' are to confirm that the removal of Agricultural Property Relief will continue as planned (a.k.a. the Family Farm Tax)...

You can see the full docs here

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