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Cancel your NFU membership now
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Attached. Produced by The Ethical Consumer team. A sort of Eco Private Eye.
https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethical-consumer-magazine
warksfarmer
Member
Pages 104-107. The None Farming Union is finished.
Well, if we got them reformed so that only farmers could be members, then yes they would be finished as the None Farming Union.
They wont be finished otherwise; even if a significant chunk of the farming membership stopped paying their subs tomorrow they could keep pottering along on the back of the the investments.
You wont starve the NFU out. You need to reform it.
If farmers want to put real pressure on the NFU to stand up for it’s members then as they say “money talks” , the most effective way is to cancel or not renew your NFU farm insurance, whilst NFU insurance is a seperate business if you cancel & make plain your reasons you can bet it will be passed along putting far more pressure than any other complaining we can do.
Insurers such as Cornish Mutual are every bit as competitive & in my experience over 40 years very fair.
Insurers such as Cornish Mutual are every bit as competitive & in my experience over 40 years very fair.
- Location
- Essex
They won't chuck out their corporate or countryside non farming members, they have become too important to the business.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I know off a guy who dose deal with them and have heard him after dinner speaking about it and he has great fun dealing with them plays games with them as they do with him but he sells something not many other sell so kind of has the whip hand with them but he certinaly seems to enjoy the horse trading side with them!
supermarkets already buy unassured produce
ALL of the cereal / bakery products for starters !
the reason the NFU are failing on this is part ego (they invented this) , part gravy train connections / future opportunities for officers and head office employees and part need to represent their influencial none farming membership
i buy better cover for for very little £
any decent businesses insurance should offer it
I’ve been banging on about the big corporate members for years
THIS is the issue and explains why they dont seem to represent
a farming union should be 100% farmers surely
- Location
- Essex
NFU mutual are not very competitive in my experience
tullah
Member
- Location
- Linconshire
Absolutely your last para.
don’t get me started on that - what do you expect from a “mutual “ that lost >£143m pounds, 2 years after it lost >£290m yet still paid its CEO over 2 million salary bonus last year !
despite claims of no connection to the NFU they are worth circa £ 6 million a year to them in the last NFU accounts i saw
This is ALL big businesses and pocket lining, very little to do with trully helping farmers these days sadly
tullah
Member
- Location
- Linconshire
Last line is National Farmers Union. Naughty because it's miss advertised as such and misleading.
i think policy makers know this in reality - they have little time for their moans from what i can tell these days
Scholsey
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
i believe it would be far less of a issue for arable farms compared to the livestock industry.
I would rather have a far more sensible version of red tractor assurance than dairy/livestock produce buyers make us be part of something like RSPCA freedom foods where they threaten removal of contract for taking part the badger cull etc. That’s the alternative! Supermarkets are making game dealers only buy from assured shoots, there’s no way they would buy most of their meat/dairy from unassured farms!
How many of these horrendous animal welfare cases happen on farm assured farms? Very few I should imagine, the removal of farm assurance would allow far more serious cases of this which would damage the livestock industry even further!
If farm assurance for livestock farmers stops just one extra case like the one above then it’s doing it’s job, current RT is far from perfect i agree but I believe a alternative or no assurance could be a whole lot worse.
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- Location
- Essex
You assume that farm assurance improves welfare or reduces the risk of welfare breaches?
Scholsey
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
I would take a strong guess that far more cases of animal cruelty take place on non assured farms.
pictures like above are horrendous BUT break LAWS. - they do not in anyway justify a private company leaching on farmers on top of those laws
the law should simply be enforced, assurance not stopping these shocking cases
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tullah
Member
- Location
- Linconshire
By this, are you trying to justify the case for RT?
- Location
- Warwickshire
There's plenty of bulls**t in there about TB and badgers. If they can't get that right how many other inaccuracies are there ?