wonder what the stock is likeShame your not a farm assured farmer with a farm like that!
Who's joining me?
- Thread starter S J H
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Not quite true, there are some firms who do not touch non farm assured fat stock .
That's the kind of thing the Nfu would say to justify the existence of RT, absolutely ridiculous. We have legal standards that are in place across the sector to put UK produce in a better light than the majority of foreign imports.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
What does that matter?
Isn’t that the biggest problem most have with RT? It has nothing to do with the stock, and everything to do with everything being in the right place.
Not so sure they work and i think the end of assurance will only really benefit the arable men and not the poor livestock farming relation
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
That’s because of the closed chain of control, not that they value what RT brings to the table.
They only buy ‘RT only’ stock because that’s what their retailer customers have bought into, so the demands (& costs) get passed down the chain, ending up with the poor saps that can’t pass the costs down any further.
Sainsbury’s dropped RT several years ago. Has it made any difference to their market share?
Guess after our conversation you ended up eating steak and not porridge!
I suppose she'll look back at this one day as character building when she's running RT.
Always said that if your in a job dealing with the public, especially farmers, you have to have very thick skin. I'm not saying for one minute that HC was bullying her at all, but if she was a youngster and starting out I bet she had an "official" playbook that she had been trained to treat it like a bible, and not to deviate from the written word! No matter how silly the requests were.
Just incase the rozzers do turn up, I do not know this man, never met this man and do not recollect any telephone conversation on said day!!
That’s entirely disgusting, bullying behaviour on your part. I hope it made you feel big
- Location
- East yorks
Looking through the changes for this autumn i am really not sure i will carry on with the beef for the 10-15 cattle we sell a year, having to get all the plans signed by the vet from this year including the empty one to say we haven't used any antibotics again plus doing the medicines course means i think i might just leave. I always like to have it laid out and ready to go but I think we will just drop to cereals one which we need to have as we have no grain storage.
- Location
- Essex
Agree, but then we're used to that kind of behaviour from the dead tractor and we just have to either put up with it or find a way to stop funding the gravy train.
If there’s an issue with the whole scheme, speak to somebody above the inspector who literally was just doing their job. To be fair it sounds to me the ones with a massive problem with it are just the ones that are non compliant.
Have you read all of hfd cattle's Post's on his inspection ? If you have you will know what lead to his supposed " bullying behavior "
Totally agree that the above was a pee take, however why did you go along with it ? I might have accepted one time change if it were convenient, but after that it would have been a case of honour the appointment or rebook at no potential penalty to myself.
As to the inspection, sorry but you have no idea how to behave Instead of keeping out of the way I opened my big gob and told her straightaway that I'm not messing about and I haven't time to waste so get on with it ....black looks of OH ! What a way to start any form of business meeting. I wouldn't expect anyone to talk to my daughter or indeed my wife or even myself like that at the commencement of a meeting inspection and if you are being honest nor would you.
She was there to do a job, if you thought she was incompetent at it you should have terminated the inspection and asked her politely to leave and reported the reasons to her supervisor.
People moan continually about the snowflake generation, yes this is an issue, its also an issue when people behave like the neanderthal foreman and managers who used to haunt factory floors years ago bullying anyone they felt like.
Twaddle. better to not post unless you have something accurate to say, that you know what you are talking about.
I can accurately say he didn’t have a disinfectant boot dip
what a pathetic,petty point (but indicative of the scheme i'll give you that ) when its such a big issue to so many
this is what i commented on .
I thought the livestock assurance rules were a walk in the park compared to the cereals one?
- Location
- Hereford
I did have one .....but not at the entrance to each cattle shed which she was saying I should have .
She could have disinfected her feet on arrival at the premises but she chose not to until we got up to the cattle sheds .
Neither have we ,but we passed this summer with no problem. It's always been acceptable to have disinfectant on farm for when/if it's needed. Haven't had an auditor here yet who hasn't got a bucket and a brush in the car and disinfects wellys and waterproof trousers before starting the audit
As do the Vets...