Oct 25, 2026 · 52 min · 12 segments
John Pawsey, 4th generation Suffolk organic farmer, bookworm and bon viveur…we settle down to natter about a few things currently on his mind. Find out more about John, the family business and his…
John PawseyGuestBevHostWhat shall we talk about today? Because I'll be honest with you, I don't have an agenda with you.
I just felt like I wanted to have another natter with you.
Yeah.
Does
like to promote
talk about?
I mean, the one thing that I do think is, and it's not just organic farmers, but it's generally sort of arable farmers at the moment.
One of the reasons for doing what I did with the sort of ridiculous... things I did on Instagram, especially during harvest, was that a lot of arable farmers have had, you know, two battle harvests in a row, and this is probably the third one.
And everyone sort of views it, and you see these, and I think, you know, arable farmers are sort of poorly represented.
They're of a type, and there's lots of new tractors, and it doesn't look like they're particularly impoverished because they're all dressed in these... shuffle, cut-off sleeve sort of thing.
They're not like marching to London on foot with banners and just really making a...
They're just all gathering with their tractors and honking their really annoying horns.
But actually, and I think in a funny kind of way, arable farmers in a strange way have been picking the wrong fight in terms of inheritance tax.
What shall we talk about today? Because I'll be honest with you, I don't have an agenda with you.
I just felt like I wanted to have another natter with you.
Yeah.
Does
like to promote
talk about?
I mean, the one thing that I do think is, and it's not just organic farmers, but it's generally sort of arable farmers at the moment.
One of the reasons for doing what I did with the sort of ridiculous... things I did on Instagram, especially during harvest, was that a lot of arable farmers have had, you know, two battle harvests in a row, and this is probably the third one.
And everyone sort of views it, and you see these, and I think, you know, arable farmers are sort of poorly represented.
They're of a type, and there's lots of new tractors, and it doesn't look like they're particularly impoverished because they're all dressed in these... shuffle, cut-off sleeve sort of thing.
They're not like marching to London on foot with banners and just really making a...
They're just all gathering with their tractors and honking their really annoying horns.
But actually, and I think in a funny kind of way, arable farmers in a strange way have been picking the wrong fight in terms of inheritance tax.
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