Mole Valley farmers sell their Fertilizer Business

[Martyn]

Synergy farm vets.

There small animal care has been sold to two vets so now an independent. They put a lot if money into getting the vets all up & running, lots of changeovers of management to.

 

[Sam Partridge]

They sold off Teignmouth a few years ago to help buy/ build the site in Wales they have just sold off!

MVF are now totally out of the fertilizer job from a production viewpoint, they will now just buy the Fertilizer off Thomas Bell and sons and sell it on to farmers etc.

I don't mind hearing this as Thomas Bell always look to have the best prices on The Fert Price Tracker, as long as the product is decent

 

[Wooly]

MVF........ got too big, too quickly.

Now the chickens have come home to roost.

 

[BrianV]

MVF........ got too big, too quickly.

Now the chickens have come home to roost.

More likely to be to do with their fairly new computer systems being hacked, they refused to pay up to the blackmail & the consequences of the fallout were far reaching, sadly other companies are now more likely to give in to this type of blackmail in future, computers & their systems will be a criminals paradise in future!

 

[Johnnyboxer]

More likely to be to do with their fairly new computer systems being hacked, they refused to pay up to the blackmail & the consequences of the fallout were far reaching, sadly other companies are now more likely to give in to this type of blackmail in future, computers & their systems will be a criminals paradise in future!

What happened?
Did i miss it?

 

[Jimdog1]

IT hack, massive investment at Lifton Mill, unmotivated staff.
New kids on the block are sharper and more helpful in my neck of the woods.

 

[BrianV]

What happened?
Did i miss it?

I understand a new computer system joining up all of their branches was hacked & £500,000 demanded, when they refused to pay up all hell broke loose for months on end, they won't be the last to get caught like this I'm sure

 

[Johnnyboxer]

I understand a new computer system joining up all of their branches was hacked & £500,000 demanded, when they refused to pay up all hell broke loose for months on end, they won't be the last to get caught like this I'm sure

Wow, is that true?
I am shocked and also saddened, how can that happen if you have the right IT security and protocols?

 

[Jsmith2211]

that new computer system is responsible for a lot more than just the hack. they will have lost thousands just from people getting p'd off at them not having what they say they have! Staff all getting fed up with the bad leadership (retail bosses not farmers at all) and the computers being awful. All gone downhill since bernard left....

 

[BrianV]

Wow, is that true?
I am shocked and also saddened, how can that happen if you have the right IT security and protocols?

Not sure any system is going to be totally secure as time goes by, what does a company do when faced with a threat it takes a brave company to stand up to the blackmailers.

 

[BrianV]

that new computer system is responsible for a lot more than just the hack. they will have lost thousands just from people getting p'd off at them not having what they say they have! Staff all getting fed up with the bad leadership (retail bosses not farmers at all) and the computers being awful. All gone downhill since bernard left....

Think you will find the blackmail attack & subsequent collapse of the computer system through out the firm is to blame, all firms rely totally on computers these days & all hell breaks out when they are corrupted.

 

[Johnnyboxer]

Think you will find the blackmail attack & subsequent collapse of the computer system through out the firm is to blame, all firms rely totally on computers these days & all hell breaks out when they are corrupted.

When every market town, had a bank branch and all was written in ledgers..........money held in the bank's safe

At least you could identify the bad guys, running up the road in balaclava's

 

[BrianV]

When every market town, had a bank branch and all was written in ledgers..........money held in the bank's safe

At least you could identify the bad guys, running up the road in balaclava's

The trouble is you may think your companies computer system is secure but you never really know until the day comes when you are threatened then what do you do, it's a high stakes decision?

 

[jondear]

It's a criminals paradise .Had a call from lloyds last night to say wife's card had been used twice to buy stuff in US for pence it was .Then subsequent TX and call but at first didn't know if it was a scam !It was true and bank cancelled the card

 

[Johnnyboxer]

It's a criminals paradise .Had a call from lloyds last night to say wife's card had been used twice to buy stuff in US for pence it was .Then subsequent TX and call but at first didn't know if it was a scam !It was true and bank cancelled the card

Exactly
At least In the old days you could see the bandits coming, in their balaclavas

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Why would a agricultural co-op flog off one of the key inputs in ag?

Maybe they are going to sell more clover seed?

 

[Bury the Trash]

unmotivated staff.

(at least they used to have ) really good staff, the man in charge of the blending plant they used to have at Crediton (supplied from Tinmouth ) was well on top of the job, with good helpers , full of it very efficient, (pulled in there for a few tonne once and was 20 mins late , he gAave me a right telling off and made me wait 1 1/2 hrs before they could load me was my fault of coure ) pity all smaller places have to disappear .
used to have them and ukf all within sensible tractor hauling distance

Everything changes but not necessarily for the better

 

[Jimdog1]

(at least they used to have ) really good staff, the man in charge of the blending plant they used to have at Crediton (supplied from Tinmouth ) was well on top of the job, with good helpers , full of it very efficient, (pulled in there for a few tonne once and was 20 mins late , he gAave me a right telling off and made me wait 1 1/2 hrs before they could load me was my fault of coure ) pity all smaller places have to disappear .
used to have them and ukf all within sensible tractor hauling distance

Everything changes but not necessarily for the better

Had loads from Crediton. Do you remember the jib they had on the forklifts to cope with the low doorways? Quite strange going there now for one of Barney's secret cider society tours.

 

[BrianV]

I understand a new computer system joining up all of their branches was hacked & £500,000 demanded, when they refused to pay up all hell broke loose for months on end, they won't be the last to get caught like this I'm sure

Had a chat with brother it seems the demand was £5million rather than £500k

 

[jondear]

Had a chat with brother it seems the demand was £5million rather than £500k

Didn't it cost them 10 million …!