Andrew Blenkiron

Would you like Andrew Blenkiron sacked from the board of Red Tractor for his insulting comments.

  • Yes

    Votes: 273 94.1%
  • No

    Votes: 17 5.9%

  • Total voters
    290

snarling bee

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
Red Tractor is a brand. They only care about Red Tractor. That's how brands behave and it is their reason for being.

Don't fall for all this stuff about being not for profit or essential to reduce govt inspections etc.

RT exists solely to service itself- its not altruistic, its a business. Buyer beware!
Is Red Tractor a brand? They don't sell anything.
 

snarling bee

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
The definition of 'brand' varies.

Perhaps we should take away the RT brand from RT and run it ourselves.
Do those who have brands, say 'Duchy Originals', have their boards of directors dominated by their customers? No. So why is that the case with RT?

Edit How does 'British Grain' sound, or 'Marvellous UK Milk', MUM for short. Or 'Great British Produce'??
 
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Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Is Red Tractor a brand? They don't sell anything.


of course, its a brand, and they often refer to its as such "iconic brand" according to Guy Smith :ROFLMAO:

It's not a very good brand however, the amount of money to achieve "brand greatness" is way beyond what Red tractor could ever wish for


I've said MANY time there is only one brand UK produced food needs ............... and it's free! NFU etc should just lobby to protect its use better

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Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
of course, its a brand, and they often refer to its as such "iconic brand" according to Guy Smith :ROFLMAO:

It's not a very good brand however, the amount of money to achieve "brand greatness" is way beyond what Red tractor could ever wish for


I've said MANY time there is only one brand UK produced food needs ............... and it's free! NFU etc should just lobby to protect its use better

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Spot on!

The fact that meat labelled "Produced in the UK" could have been from an animal that spent its entire life out of the UK is appalling.
 
I read in the FW Mr Blenkiron claims he has a had a lot of people offering him "support" and agreeing with his views when he publicly called critics of the RT scheme's duplicitousness "backstabbers".

And seemingly anyone critical of him for calling out the flaws in the Red Tractor scheme are part of what is "undoubtedly bad" in the farming industry....

Funny how an employed rep of RT is presenting themselves as a victim having branding a whole swath of farmers backstabbers for pointing out glaring inconsistencies. Don't like his style at all, an apology for abusing critics of RT would have been reasonable...
 
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Raider112

Member
I read in the FW Mr Blenkiron has a had a lot of people offering him "support" and agreeing with his views when he publicly called critics of the RT scheme's duplicitousness "backstabbers".

And seemingly anyone critical of him for calling out the flaws in the Red Tractor scheme are part of what is "undoubtedly bad" in the farming industry....

Funny how an employed rep of RT is presenting themselves as a victim having branding a whole swath of farmers backstabbers for pointing out glaring inconsistencies. Don't like his style at all, an apology for abusing critics of RT would have been reasonable...
I don't like the idea of paying his wages that's for sure.
 

thorpe

Member

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 79 42.5%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 65 34.9%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.1%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

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

    Votes: 6 3.2%

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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