We seem to have become embroiled in a war with our political leaders.
Farming has been struck by a raft of disastrous parliamentary decisions and it is difficult not to take it as an orchestrated onslaught.
The emerging policies weigh heavy on our shoulders, they consume our thoughts and infiltrate our conversations.
There are many who believe that to fight against the government is pointless and that protesting will achieve nothing.
I dont know that they are wrong, but what I do know is this. No single issue has ever ignited such unity within the agricultural community as that which we are witnessing now.
The government, and those they collude with, have wronged farmers persistently and for so long that when Rachel Reeves announced a death tax intended to strip our children of their homes and businesses, a fuse was lit and decades of accumulated anger rose to the surface.
It was the final straw.
Farmers have been repeatedly betrayed, they are angry and they've had enough.
Enough of trying to remain viable within an unscrupulous supply chain where it is impossible to profit.
Enough of the utter scam that is net zero which is being used to hold the industry over a mythical barrel of fictional wrongdoing - all while the government try to poach farmland at less than market value so they and their corporate funders can develop it.
Farmers face a future where their children are forced to sit and watch while the land they cannot afford to keep is snapped up by investors looking for carbon credits to offset the consequences of their environmentally damaging businesses.
This government has failed to honour payments promised to farmers and halted multiple agro-environmental schemes without warning and without alternative.
They enable trade deals which allow cheap, inferior produce into the country - not to mention the illegal imports that slip through border control - undermining British producers, compromising our ability to control disease and risking human and animal health into the bargain.
British agriculture is crying out for politicians to heed its warnings over the future of national food security but they continue to turn their backs.
And yet, in spite of their indifference to farmer protests and refusal to converse, I wonder if perhaps the volume of our collective voice and overwhelming public support is starting to make them uncomfortable.
Could this be why there has been a succession of hits directed specifically at farmers?
Is the government goading us to ramp things up and take action that will cause greater disruption and inconvenience?
Do they want farmers to step out of line, so we can be framed as the villains and turn public opinion?
Perhaps this is why they back us further and further into a corner while refusing to hold dialogue, knowing full well we have very few cards to play.
You have to wonder.
But what they forget about our industry is, out of conditions politicians themselves have engineered, farmers have become resilient and determined.
They are able to endure hard times and they will not back down when things get tough. Farmers are familiar with tough.
Whatever the political motivation, whether it be ignorance or corruption, farmers are not going to go away this time - they've nothing left to lose.
The only way to quiet our voices is to listen to the alarm bells we are trying to sound.
Work with us, not against us and look for ways to do much, much better to ensure a sustainable future for British agriculture and the hard working people who put food on our tables.
#foodsecurity
#nofarmersnofood
#together
#withourfarmers
Rachel Reeves
Steve Reed MP
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
