The event, organised by the NFU, includes a tractor and a JCB stationed near the Old House, alongside a food and farming display.
NFU members are also speaking to shoppers about food production and the Government’s inheritance tax changes as part of a national day of unity.
They will be in town until 4pm today (January 25).
Farmers are gathering at protests across the UK as they step up their campaign against the Government’s inheritance tax reforms – which they say would “decimate” the country’s agricultural sector.
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The National Farmers Union (NFU) is staging a series of events on Saturday as part of a so-called National Day of Unity, with farmers bringing food, tractors and livestock to town centres across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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The events take place after a petition signed by more than 270,000 members of the public was handed in to 10 Downing Street on Friday by NFU president Tom Bradshaw and NFU Cymru president Aled Jones, urging the Government to ditch what they described as the “devastating family farm tax”.
Rachel Hallos, a livestock farmer from the South Pennines and the vice president of the NFU, said she hoped the events will “raise awareness” of the impact of the planned reforms to inheritance tax for farming businesses, and push the Government to review its decision.
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Speaking on her way to an event in Chester, Cheshire, Ms Hallos said: “The inheritance tax changes from the Budget will ultimately decimate what we’ve currently got in this country, and we’re really worried about it.
“Today is about telling people why we are so concerned, trying to explain how complicated the food supply chain is, because it really is, and that farmers are at the beginning of that food supply chain.
“We completely appreciate that a lot of members of the general public will say, ‘Oh for goodness sake, you’re alright in your big farmhouses, all this lamb that you own…’
“But the reality is, those are our assets, we never sell them.”