It feels instinctive to me to want to protect the farming industry from our idiotic politicians, but recently I have noticed my defiance at the situation evolving.
Instead of feeling compelled to persuade those governing us to open their eyes to the perils of their decisions, I feel a resistance to the very need to have to go out and protest at all - totally illogical given the precarious position we are in.
What I mean is, really, why should we have to fight to convince anyone that it is important for us to produce food for them?
As ridiculous scenarios go that's got to be right up there and honestly, I feel like telling the government to get the hell on with it.
To go ahead and decimate British farming and good luck to them when there are none of us left, when the population is hungry and when the countryside is a barren, wasteland that no tourists wish to visit.
Realistically, however, our battle goes on.
To any non-farmers reading this post please know that our argument with the government is about so much more than inheritance tax and preservation of assets.
The real problem is that the supply chain for British produce has been broken for decades.
Dominated by processors and supermarkets, farmers have been paid unfairly, often way below the cost of production and plunging many of them further and further into the red, for decades.
Our incredible, world leading produce has been undermined in the supermarkets by poor quality, foreign alternatives, produced to lesser welfare standards, FOR DECADES.
We have been set up by successive governments to fail through the implementation of ineffective subsidies, ill conceived environmental stewardship schemes and by hugely unfair foreign trade deals.
If Defra had been working with us and for us at any point in modern history we could be making a decent, realiable income and an inheritance tax bill, which we are now likely to face, would not be insurmountable. But that is not where we are at.
Without inheritance tax relief the agricultural landscape (and that of home grown enterprise in general) will be unrecognisable within a single generation - small family businesses will not survive.
And a subnote to that, traditional family farms are the absolute best farms there are. They have to be. They don't have economies of scale like the huge factory farms do and rely on resourcefulness and husbandry skills alongside a level of hard work and dedication that you rarely find outside of agriculture.
What the public are seeing of farming at the moment, or at least much of what fills my social media news feed, takes the form of swathes of expensive looking, shiny tractors on the motorway or photographs of farmers' children holding "I just want to farm" plaquards.
How effective this is, I don't know. Is this going to prompt a government U-turn on taxation policy or convince a member of the public who doesn't fully grasp the situation that things must change? I don't know.
What do I think we could possibly do to actually achieve any of those things? I don't know that either.
Do I think overturning the changes to inheritance tax is a battle we can realistically win? Honestly, who knows.
Am I willing to roll over and let them bring it in without a fight? The hell I am!
