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  1. Grass And Grain

    Red Tractor: What Reforms Necessary?

    Id have though government liked RT because it means they don't need as many inspectors. Contrary to that, EA say they don't give earned recognition to RT accredited farms.
  2. Grass And Grain

    Red Tractor: What Reforms Necessary?

    Basically the NFU/AHDB"s system involves making sure we have to pay Red Tractor and then stopping the free LA inspections which would cover the same things. Stop the free service, and agree to voluntarily fund it ourselves. That's their policy.
  3. Grass And Grain

    Red Tractor: What Reforms Necessary?

    Yep, exactly what happens. Red Tractor, the farmer's friend dontcha know. All part of the protection racket. Pay up or we'll cause you hassle. All happening under watch of NFU and AHDB.
  4. Grass And Grain

    Red Tractor: What Reforms Necessary?

    LA inspector I had was quite certain about it, they got a list of RT accredited farms, and also got notifications as soon as an individual farm dropped off the RT list. What they didn't get told was why farmer wasn't RT any longer. Because they'd failed inspection, failed inspection really...
  5. Grass And Grain

    Red Tractor: What Reforms Necessary?

    Only way I can think to ensure theoretical retailer assurance premiums are genuine is to make them pledge to purchase boggy basic legislative requirements food, and then offer a premium for gold plated assured. Otherwise they'll just knock the theoretical premium off the core product price...
  6. Grass And Grain

    Red Tractor: What Reforms Necessary?

    I noticed at the No. 10 Farm to Fork summit, Rishi's answer to the NFU's push for food security issue was to put a ban on solar farms on anything above grade 3b land. Nice, that means another profitable diversification land use made more difficult, and so we need to keep producing low price food...
  7. Grass And Grain

    Red Tractor: What Reforms Necessary?

    And if we're not on the RT database we get local authority inspections. It's only of we pay RT that we don't get the LA inspections. It's crazy. NFU and AHDB have backed the concept of is paying them for RT inspections which the state would otherwise have provided for free. It's pretty much the...
  8. Grass And Grain

    Red Tractor: What Reforms Necessary?

    Very true, well said. Takes us back full circle to the truth that local authorities inspect food premises (including farms). I suppose I was meaning there's certainly no need for RT for those that do choose to have a vet attestation With exception of mass balance, my Local Authority inspection...
  9. Grass And Grain

    Christine Tacon leaves Red Tractor

    Well Tacon is gone, so her dismissing the motion. is empty words. NSA proposed the motions, then within 3 weeks or so Chair did a runner before embarrassment of being voted out. Surely NFU won't be so daft as to put Batters at helm of Red Tractor. Her obsession with RT is probably reason why...
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    Christine Tacon leaves Red Tractor

    With exception of any new laws, I suspect we've stopped them in their tracks for any silly new rules they were thinking of inventing. Combinables. Red Tractor are well down the road to developing a new lighter touch cereals and sugar beet assurance standard. It's frustratingly slow, but I...
  11. Grass And Grain

    Red Tractor: What Reforms Necessary?

    I suppose each sector is slightly different. Livestock, we possibly need to match the assurance of our competitors. Irish beef etc. Annoying thing is these competitors got assurance schemes to match RT, so it's all been a massive mistake by NFU/AHDB. Cereals. Imports haven't got farm assurance...
  12. Grass And Grain

    Red Tractor: What Reforms Necessary?

    Who owns the New Zealand Lamb assurance scheme? Who owns the Danish Crown pig assurance scheme? Who owns the Borda Bia Irish Beef & Lamb assurance scheme? Who owns the Australian Beef & Lamb assurance scheme? Do the supermarkets own these assurance schemes? No they don't, it's the farming...
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    Red Tractor: What Reforms Necessary?

    Farmers often say we can't get together into marketing coops because we can't organise ourselves, we're fragmented etc. If there's one organisation who's got most of the farmers gathered together on a single database, it's Red Tractor. Only problem is, this database has been used by...
  14. Grass And Grain

    Christine Tacon leaves Red Tractor

    Most of RT's customers are the farmers. They ignored their customers, and thought they could run roughshod over us. That doesn't seem such a smart management strategy. What a bizarre way to run a business. Suppose it depends who you're actually working for. God help the Co-op.
  15. Grass And Grain

    Fertiliser Price Tracker

    Compound?
  16. Grass And Grain

    Bison to save the planet

    333kg CO2 produced per tonne of grain fermented, although it was CO2 before the barley plant photosynthesised it, so it doesn't really matter.
  17. Grass And Grain

    Ground Nesting Birds, Bees and Leverets.

    Seems like the government take more notice of RSPB than they do farmers, which is great if you put more importance on bird feeding than feeding humans.
  18. Grass And Grain

    Ground Nesting Birds, Bees and Leverets.

    If they run with SFI for a few years, then have an about turn and scrap it year 2030, we could end up with a load of little birds but no food for them. RSPB will have a hissy fit.
  19. Grass And Grain

    Ground Nesting Birds, Bees and Leverets.

    Only thing they've forgotten is food for the humans. That's not our problem and could give us price rises, but I'd have thought food security was a government responsibility.
  20. Grass And Grain

    Is there less thistles?

    Herbal leys. This thread worries me.
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