{"id":386028,"date":"2026-01-23T12:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386028\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:19:07","slug":"protesting-farmers-block-port-of-felixstowe-with-tractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386028\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesting farmers block Port of Felixstowe with tractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re having to produce to higher welfare standards but still face non-competitive products coming in,&#8221; Blythe said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adam Searle, owner of haulage firm CP Transport based near Ipswich, said the disruption was &#8220;frustrating&#8221; and he was &#8220;still working through what the damage actually is&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Farmers also said that plans to tax inherited farmland had been a stress on finances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government said it would start imposing a 20% tax on inherited agricultural assets worth more than \u00a31m from April 2026, ending the 100% tax relief that had been in place since the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But after months of protests by farmers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8e9n3y28g1o\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the government increased the threshold<\/a> from \u00a31m to \u00a32.5m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blyth said: &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t make any sense for a business to have to sell off chunks of its business every generation that it gets passed along.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;re having to produce to higher welfare standards but still face non-competitive products coming in,&#8221; Blythe said. Adam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-386028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}