by UNSHADOWED (IAF), Unshadowed:
The UK paid farmers to stop producing, and now blames a food crisis on the weather
The UK seems to be in a world of hurt.
The media has been abuzz about the need to stock canned goods due to “food shortages,” blaming global warming and hostile nations:
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Remarkably, these were exactly the causes blamed in many tabletop exercises, including Food Chain Reaction Game 2015—keynoted by none other than John Podesta—which, unsurprisingly, demanded “better global governance.”
But the genesis of this “new” food crisis, being used to justify an acceleration of gene-edited crops and other unpopular measures advancing the technocratic takeover of food, lies not in Russian aggression or CO2, but in bad policies and economic warfare against farmers for generations.
The Food Crisis is Coming from Inside the House
Though several novels could be dedicated to the systematic strangulation of British agriculture, I will highlight only a select few to paint the rough picture:
Inheritance Tax
While the UK’s general inheritance tax (IHT) sits at 40%, farms historically have been shielded from this by an “Agricultural Property Relief” policy. Family farms were handed down from one generation to the next, as has been done by humans since the dawn of time.
That ended on April 6, 2026.
IHT relief for agricultural property was capped this year to £2.5 million — which really doesn’t go far considering the value of farmland and requisite equipment. Everything thereafter is subject to an effective IHT of 20% on farm land and assets that are already running on a very thin margin. This is how a cash-poor, asset-rich farm gets sold to pay the tax bill.
This is staggeringly bad policy, forcing experienced farmers off their land. It is also, in my view, wholly immoral — but we’ll set that aside.
Unplugging the Life Support
The UK has cut off financial support from farms. Britain once paid farmers to grow food. The EU turned that into a land cheque called the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS). After Brexit, this subsidy to producers (now called ‘delinked payments’) was set to expire gradually over time, shifting instead to a “Sustainable Farming Incentive.”
While the BPS began at £180–£230/ha, resulting in an average payment of £28,400/year, the delinked payments are this year (2026) capped at £600. Yet the SFI “replacing” it was shut down in 2025 when its budget was exhausted. Thousands of producers were left out to dry:
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