How long do you spend preparing for RT audit?

Neddy flanders · Jun 5, 2021

OK I know theres been a hundred threads about RT but.....

Is it just me, or does the preparation for a crops audit take un reasonable time and effort.
Saturday Afternoon, and today will be spent on 8 hrs of paperwork.
Over the year, i have tried to work out the time required, which i now estimate takes between 50 and 70 man days per year, just to prepare all the stores, paperwork, machinery, records, etc.

i dont do stress and anxiety very well, and this has become so burdensome its very very serious now.

7610 super q · Jun 5, 2021

Difficult to say. I try and keep up the paperwork as I go through the year, and keep the yards / sheds tidy as I go too. I go through the same ritual of getting the MOT and Norso number from an astonished spray contractor every year. Journey off to find somewhere to dispose of spent chem drums. Ordering a moisture meter calibration sample. It all mounts up....

2 weeks work at an estimate ?

7610 super q · Jun 5, 2021

* 2 weeks unpaid work.

nick... · Jun 5, 2021

It stresses the hell out of me and I do stuff and paperwork throughout the year.they could turn up now and I’d have no issues until they start treating me like an idiot.only had one very reasonably helpful man a few years back and been considerable worse since.chap I had last year died so new interrogator this year and due any time.it will keep worrying me till it’s over.it can’t be good for anyone’s mental health.
nick...

Bald Rick · Jun 5, 2021

Wait until I've failed then fill in bits I've been tugged on.

It's all an inordinate amount of crap to little purpose

Flat 10 · Jun 5, 2021

Neddy flanders said:
OK I know theres been a hundred threads about RT but.....

Is it just me, or does the preparation for a crops audit take un reasonable time and effort.
Saturday Afternoon, and today will be spent on 8 hrs of paperwork.
Over the year, i have tried to work out the time required, which i now estimate takes between 50 and 70 man days per year, just to prepare all the stores, paperwork, machinery, records, etc.

i dont do stress and anxiety very well, and this has become so burdensome its very very serious now.

Totally unreasonable. I think your estimate is more than fair. It’s criminal that we are coerced by cartel to join. Wait until we have to do the mass balances too

Phil P · Jun 5, 2021

7610 super q said:
* 2 weeks unpaid work.

Technically your paying for the privilege of doing the work !

Bald Rick · Jun 5, 2021

Flat 10 said:
Totally unreasonable. I think your estimate is more than fair. It’s criminal that we are coerced by cartel to join. Wait until we have to do the mass balances too

You arable boys have it easy.
Dairy processors force you to be RT compliant as a condition of our supply contracts. Fail your RT, you’re out (in theory) unless compliant within 28 days

Phil P · Jun 5, 2021

Bald Rick said:
You arable boys have it easy.
Dairy processors force you to be RT compliant as a condition of our supply contracts. Fail your RT, you’re out (in theory) unless compliant within 28 days

So no real difference to arable produce then

Bald Rick · Jun 5, 2021

Phil P said:
So no real difference to arable produce then

I suspect we have more silly rules though ...

Which sector has the stupidest paperwork? I dunno

FIGHT

DrWazzock · Jun 5, 2021

I forgot to attend the moisture meter clinic which would have been half a day in itself and a gallon of fuel.
Instead I was busy doing something trivial like getting my T1 on or repairing a machine.
I’d estimate it takes about a fortnight extra per year of faffing about over and above the basic minimum legal requirements we have to meet anyway.

DrWazzock · Jun 5, 2021

It’s the fact there is no discernible financial reward that bugs me. No premium, no bonus, nothing. Nobody has ever even asked to see any of my records or taken any notice of my retained samples or readings in all time I’ve been a member maybe 30 years. All that matters is the sample at intake just like the non assured foreign grain. Anyway, I’d better not start. It’s a nice day. Don’t want to ruin it with thoughts of RT.

Flat 10 · Jun 5, 2021

DrWazzock said:
It’s the fact there is no discernible financial reward that bugs me. No premium, no bonus, nothing. Nobody has ever even asked to see any of my records or taken any notice of my retained samples or readings in all time I’ve been a member maybe 30 years. All that matters is the sample at intake just like the non assured foreign grain. Anyway, I’d better not start. It’s a nice day. Don’t want to ruin it with thoughts of RT.

This is absolutely true. I urge everyone who feels like that to write to their MP, any journalist that might listen, anyone and everyone at the Nfu and anyone else they can think of. I have, but weight of opinion can only help to bring about change and make RT optional.

Barleymow · Jun 5, 2021

DrWazzock said:
I forgot to attend the moisture meter clinic which would have been half a day in itself and a gallon of fuel.
Instead I was busy doing something trivial like getting my T1 on or repairing a machine.
I’d estimate it takes about a fortnight extra per year of faffing about over and above the basic minimum legal requirements we have to meet anyway.

I get sample from grain merchant and check my meter with that

daveydiesel1 · Jun 5, 2021

It takes a good week between milkings to tidy up and get paper work done. Thankfully the dairy rep comes out to help with the paper work. But even with that effort theres still usually 2 pages of non compliances

Neddy flanders · Jun 5, 2021

how does everyone test their temperature probe?

Barleymow · Jun 5, 2021

Neddy flanders said:
how does everyone test their temperature probe?

I write down that I Icompere it against a thermometer

Adeptandy · Jun 5, 2021

Just had mine booked in for the 2nd week of July

I’ll time myself this year just to see how long it takes to compile all the recorded info

spin cycle · Jun 5, 2021

i left rt 5 yrs ago as it was having a very negative impact on my mental health....it's harder farming and my sheep are naughty

.....but i'm never going back

edit....mainly cos i'm fekked if i'm gonna be treated like a 'criminal' by jobsworths inferior to me

Neddy flanders · Jun 5, 2021

Barleymow said:
I write down that I Icompere it against a thermometer

has the thermometer been checked by someone else, calibrated and recorded?

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