In the weeks since Rachel Reeves’s Budget and its shock attack on agricultural property relief, we’ve seen various armchair pundits pontificate on farmers’ lives – a source of mounting exasperation for farmers themselves.

The peak of pundit-on-ploughman contempt came, unsurprisingly, from LBC’s James O’Brien

First, there have been the panicky announcements from the government – that the threshold for agricultural tax relief is £1 million, or that no, actually, it’s £3 million if you’re under 5’8” and are married to a woman called Susan or…“Ooh, look over there! A bird!”’

We’ve had Owen Jones on Jeremy Vine declare that farmers were overreacting due...