The Red Tractor ACCS referendum

Would you leave or remain a Red Tractor ACCS member ?

  • Yes, I would resign my Red Tractor (ACCS) membership and join a new "equal to imports" Scheme

    Votes: 659 96.1%
  • No, I would remain in the Red Tractor scheme

    Votes: 27 3.9%

  • Total voters
    686

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Let’s buy it and shut it down. It’s a load of rubbish not recognised by 65 million people and barely supported by supermarkets.

I would like to put a farmer consortium together buy 51% - the NFU / AHDB share would cover that ......... as its a not for profit those shares will be cheap right ?

we then install a farmer majority board and we can majecit whatever we want it to be .... or shut it down

would the NFU sell it ? ........... even though it’s worthless apparently ? ........... I doubt it !

why not i wonder ???

join the dots ......... again
 

Grass And Grain

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Yorks
Sounds good, can I been MD? Always wanted a stupidly high paying job for doing nothing productive or beneficial to the customers!
It would be sensible if the farmer members could democratically elect the board members. Then you can create a manifesto and put yourself forward.

Just imagine, a RT which looked after its customers.
 

snipe

Member
Location
west yorkshire
RT must be making some money somewhere. 30ft x 30ft office at 100 fen church street London. Roughly £90/sq ft with rates and service charge.
900sq ft x £90 £81,000.
 

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T C

Member
Location
Nr Kelso
60000 tons of Australian rapeseed reported to be heading into Tilbury and transported by barge to Erith. What assurance scheme is it grown under and is it from neonic treated seed?. I am not having a pull at Australian farmers I am trying to highlight the well documented inequality that we face .
And the rape meal will be assured and fed to red tractor livestock
 
I would like to put a farmer consortium together buy 51% - the NFU / AHDB share would cover that ......... as its a not for profit those shares will be cheap right ?

we then install a farmer majority board and we can majecit whatever we want it to be .... or shut it down

would the NFU sell it ? ........... even though it’s worthless apparently ? ........... I doubt it !

why not i wonder ???

join the dots ......... again

Yep and back to cancelling NFU membership. It’s the only way.
 
NFU lawyers should be looking into the restrictive trade practices of RT and mills. Slightly off script COOP very much against not just GM but GE. They need to be asked where they declare the GM soyabean products or animal products produced by them. Again RT should be defending that type of statement. Deafened by the silence defending farmers.
 

homefarm

Member
Location
N.West
What do you think to Clive's suggestion in an earlier post, farmers offering to buy RT?
Stop! Stop! Stop! They might get back with a price

I would be happy for RT to continue and be the premium assurance it pretends to be now.
Who knows some brands may pay a premium.

I have faith that AHDB will come up with a "free to levy payers" scheme for all sectors especially after the horticulture vote.

I would then expect to see no RT left in cereals but perhaps some meat brands would pay.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 79 42.9%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 63 34.2%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.3%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 6 3.3%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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