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Help 'Save a Farmer' - Get your Bumper Sticker at:
an upcoming show or dealer event e.g. Rickerby's Open Day, Olivers Agriculture Open Day, Turney's Open Day, from our HQ in Bourne, Lincolnshire, or alternatively, you can now PURCHASE a pack of 7 by clicking the button below.
Thank you for the kind comments we received on social media and in person about our Bumper Sticker initiative. We are pleased to be supporting Farmers.
The 5,000 stickers disappeared very quickly at LAMMA - so to those who supported the initiative, spread the word and shared our posts - (👏) You know who you are!
SORRY to those who came along to the stand when we had run out of stickers, they were more popular than we could have imagined and everyone had their favourite!
REPRINT – In addition to the people who wanted stickers at the show, we have had a several requests since, so we have decided to do another print run.
There are now more available. Please feel free to come and pick your FREE sticker up at OPICO (Bourne, Lincs.), or on our stand at an upcoming show.
If you can't make it to Bourne, show or a dealer event, we are happy to post stickers out but to make it easy for everyone, we are asking for a contribution of £10 for a pack of 7, one of each design.
We are not aiming to make any money from this. The £10 (£8.34+ VAT) will cover the cost of packing and postage and OPICO will give the excess to the Air Ambulance, a very worthy charity and essential for our industry.
James Woolway, OPICO Managing Director
Click on the link below to make an on-line payment and we will get a pack of 7 stickers in the post to you.
As a family firm, at OPICO we are fully aware of the increased pressure farming businesses are now under following the proposed changes to inheritance tax relief outlined in last Autumn’s budget.
Whilst the fallout from Covid and the Russia vs Ukraine war gave UK farming a boost in 2021 and 2022, the long-term decline of margins from agriculture has now resumed. Even before the Autumn budget announcements British farm incomes were under significant pressure.
Despite poor returns, inheritance tax changes announced in the budget mean that farmers will now have a large tax bill to pay when they pass their businesses on to the next generation. For many that tax bill will exceed 10 years of farm income.
As a farmer’s son myself, I’m acutely aware of these issues and as a company we want to do whatever we can to support our customers. UK farmers have organised a number of events to highlight the potentially disastrous effect of the inheritance tax changes.
As part of the rural community, and the owner of two companies which supply farm machinery, I want to support the campaign in any way I can.
British farms of all shapes and sizes need backing from the people who benefit most from their hard work – the great British public. We need to make them aware of farmers difficulties.
It’s time to help “Save a Farmer” by buying British food and drink. Better still, we need to encourage people to buy local - from farm shops, independent butchers or direct from farms.
To help highlight this campaign we produced a series of free bumper stickers, which we initially gave out at LAMMA 2025. Following the success of this, we decided we would continue with the initiative by having more stickers printed and available to hand out at upcoming shows and dealer events. Make sure you are following us on social media to hear about which events we will have stickers available at!
British farmers are competing on a global scale with food produced by farmers who do not have the same environmental or welfare regulations as us and who benefit from significant government support. Our farm produce is amongst the most environmentally-friendly in the world but this comes at a cost. Despite this there is very little price differential and insufficient government support to justify the additional expenditure and investment required to keep up with these high standards.
Farming isn’t an industry where you can work from your office desk, it is a practical, hands-on line of work with skills, knowledge and experience passed down through the generations.
Whilst technology is helping farmers farm more efficiently, the specialist knowledge - often unique to each farming sector - is not something we can afford to let disappear. There will come a day when we cannot ship or fly food into the UK. Our country’s ability to produce food is part of our critical infrastructure. It is in the hands of fewer people than ever so it’s time to start supporting them.
James Woolway - Managing Director OPICO
Existing farming support campaigns:
Family Farms Campaign by Farmers Guardian
The video below has been sourced from the YouTube channel, Harry's Farm. In the video, Harry explains why he thinks arable farming in the UK is broken in 2025, by looking back at the grain prices in the '80s and '90s, when they were much better than they are today, once inflation has been taken into account.
