The farmers' rally in London on Tuesday was met by a wave of support from Telegraph readers, some of whom travelled cross-country to attend the protest, including non-farmers.
Since the protest, readers have got in touch to describe how their family farms will be affected, with concerns they could have to stop farming altogether. Many were fearful that they would have to sell their land to foot the bill when relatives die.
The UK's farming community was left reeling after Labour announced that farmers will lose their inheritance tax (IHT) exemption.
Agricultural property relief (APR) has historically allowed farmland to be passed between generations tax-free. However, Rachel Reeves's inaugural Budget has capped that amount at £1m despite Labour's pre-election assurances to farmers.
Richard Smith, a fourth-generation farmer from the Cotswolds who runs a 7,000-acre farm, was amongst the estimated 20,000 people who gathered in London.
Reflecting on the event, he said: "It was heartening to see so many farmers and members of the public coming together to support us.
"There was a chap who came from Birmingham, completely unrelated to farming, but he was there because he didn't agree with the principle of the situation. People travelled from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and all over England to show solidarity."
Mr Smith has two boys, aged six and eight, who are both very interested in farming. "My youngest lives and breathes tractors and farm life. When I told him I was going to London, he was angry at the thought that the Government might stop him from taking over the farm one day.
"He even wanted to come with me, but I thought it was best he stayed in school. Even at his age, he understands what's at stake."
Mr Smith expressed frustration with Labour's lack of understanding of the widespread impact this would have on the country.
He said: "I can't get my head around that they've come to the conclusion this is going to affect so few people. I don't know anyone who won't feel the impact."
Although Mr Smith was happy farmers "came together to show the strength of our support and how much we can accomplish on short notice", he remains unsure if the change will happen. To him, "it doesn't seem like Labour are willing to consider changes to the Budget".
He said: "Many family farms will be forced to sell land just to cover these taxes, triggering even more tax liability. It's a vicious cycle that risks destroying working farms."
James Robinson's cattle farm has been in his family's care since 1926. Mr Robinson, 52, was hoping to celebrate the farm's 100th birthday in two years, but now with Labour's new inheritance tax, he is not certain their farm will make it.
The future of Mr Robinson's farm remains uncertain, however he is not going down without a fight. He made the journey to Whitehall on Tuesday to participate in the NFU rally.
"I spent the bulk of the day in Church House talking to NFU staff and listening to Tom Bradshaw speak. He spoke very well and was clearly emotional as the toll from his efforts, and his team, showed."
Mr Robinson says there was a "definite undercurrent of distress and resentment" at the rally as many people continue to grapple with their new reality.
He said, "Some people were very emotional and clearly struggling to compute what was happening and many could not comprehend what they had done wrong to be singled out in such a vindictive way."
Mr Robinson was grateful to have the opportunity to spend an hour with his Conservative MP, Mims Davies, along with a handful of other farmers from his constituency.
He said, "She was very understanding and supportive and had sound words of advice about the parliamentary system and what was possible and not possible [in terms of] what it would take for a Government U-turn to happen."
However, Mr Robinson remains concerned for his livelihood. Despite the NFU's hard work, the Government appears unwilling to listen or engage, something Mr Robinson calls "very foolish".
"This isn't going to be a 'one-and-done' rally - it is a battle of wills and as farmers are some of the most stubborn, resilient and resourceful people in the country this will run and run until there is a change to the policy."
As for the future of Mr Robinson's farm: "If there are no changes to the current policy the future looks very bleak for our business. We would probably be forced to stop farming."
When he spoke to The Telegraph previously in the wake of the Budget, the farmer said he was "shell-shocked and evaluating what our options are - Sir Keir Starmer has been on the record at farmers' meetings saying that he was going to back farmers and understood our problems. We were led to believe that he actually meant it."
Turning his attention to Ms Reeves he said, "[She] purports to be a religious Christian, but I very much doubt she's been to a harvest festival in a local parish church and looked the farmers in the eye. If she had, she would have seen the misery that they've gone through over the last harvest. It's extraordinary that she can't see the implications for the wider economy with something like this."
Mr Robinson is certain that the Chancellor added the IHT to the Budget at the 11th-hour. He says, "Labour hasn't thought this through in the slightest. It's like they had been looking at other things to do for the Budget, and instead they've gone for the easy target." To him, it feels personal, as if Labour wanted to shaft farmers.
He continued: "There's not a farm in England that isn't affected. Labour's intent was probably to protect the family farm, but they are so ignorant that they completely made a hash of it."
Mr Robinson would like to continue farming for at least another 20 years and had hoped to pass down the family farm to his teenage son. But now, he's not certain that's possible.
"My son is 15, and the way I had been thinking is that my father will die in the next 10 years and I'll take over the farm. Another 15-20 years after that my son would take it on. But I think I will probably be saying to him: don't farm.
"We won't be able to afford to buy a farm somewhere else in the UK, and what else will you do at age 50? Too late for a second career. So it will be a case of moving somewhere else in the world where I can get a number of acres and start again."
When Richard Shepherd, 57, left school in his early 20s his family owned just 30 acres of land. Over several decades Mr Shepherd strategically bought hundreds of acres to establish what is now his family's 285-acre arable crop farm.
The North Yorkshire native owns the farm with his 84-year-old mother and 90-year-old father, the latter of whom still proudly ploughs the land.
"A lot of families are probably assuming that Labour will be out in five years and they'll dodge this bullet, but I don't think I'm going to dodge IHT. Take into consideration the age of my parents and there's a good probability that I will get hit by it."
Mr Shepherd calculated that his inheritance tax bill will be somewhere in the region of £300,000 when his parents die. The only way he'll be able to generate such a large sum of money is through a land sale. This is why he says the agricultural property relief is so essential to farmers.
"Farming is quite different to other businesses. We're cash poor, but there's a good amount of money tied up in the land. It's not something you're planning to sell - at least not intentionally - so you're just acting as the custodian of the land. You work it for your time and try to improve it, but then you pass it on to the next generation."
"We're not some multimillion-pound conglomerate. We're just some little farms. Reeves is just basically robbing us. I feel like I'm being fleeced, like I've been mugged."
Like Mr Robinson, Mr Shepherd's future is uncertain. He remarks: "I don't know what I'm going to do. My daughter is only 14, so we haven't told her about the situation yet. The truth is Reeves is going to steal my life's work as the custodian of our small farm and with it my daughter's opportunity to take up the challenges as the next generation's custodian. She will be snubbed out even before she leaves school."
"I'm not sure I'm going to encourage my daughter to go into farming. It's too hard. For her to spend her whole life working for something just to have it taken from you like this is utterly soul-destroying."
"The last thing any farmer needs is to be hit with a bill like this just because there's been a change of name on the door at Downing Street."
Jamie Blackett, a sixth-generation family farmer from Dumfries with 1,200 acres, felt both optimistic and determined after joining Tuesday's protest in London.
"I came back feeling very optimistic that the whole farming community is pulling together, and we're not going to back down," he said. "There might have to be some escalation - hopefully not - but this can be resolved quickly. If the Government thinks we'll just go quietly, they've got another thing coming."
Mr Blackett emphasised the importance of maintaining public support while considering the next steps.
"Not annoying the general public is very important in my view," he said. "Farmers could stop taking sewage cake onto farms or refuse to allow military training on private farmland, which would put the Army in a difficult position.
"It would be counterproductive to withdraw snow plough services, as we don't want to upset local communities. But there are a lot of things farmers do that, if we stopped, the Government would have to find someone else to do."
He also stressed that the issue extends beyond farming to all family-owned businesses because of the changes in the Business Relief Policy (BRP) from April 2026. "It's not just farmers affected. This is about every family-owned business," he said.
"We hope that going forward, more people from other sectors - like hauliers and other family enterprises - will join us in our protests."
Mr Blackett urged the Government to reconsider. "We want to carry the public with us, and the last thing we want is to inconvenience them. But we won't back down," he said.
"The Government needs to be big about this, admit it made a mistake, and do a U-turn before any damage is done."
Mr Blackett also highlighted the human cost of the proposed changes on working-class people. "It is not people like me who will be hurt by this, but it is some of the poorest in rural society who are now not going to get odd jobs, such as laying hedges or dry-stone walling, because all of my money is going towards paying for life insurance to cover the IHT costs that will be inflicted on my son if I can't live for the next seven years.
"This is not socialism, it is crony capitalism."