Combinables Price Tracker
- Thread starter Jerry
- Start date
- Location
- Essex
You know bank shares are listed on the stock exchange?
Devil's advocate
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- Location
- Posh side of Barnsley
Looks more Scouse. 80's Scouse at that.
Up market place now, West of Barnsley, the sort of girls chasing sheep farmers tend to be dressed in the fashionable horse or posh farmer gear.
Devil's advocate
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- Location
- Posh side of Barnsley
You would be out of breath stuck in Derbyshire.
Yes I know you are not too far from arable South Yorkshire, but a long way from the pink heather moors.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Interesting. If I bump into Heather Moors, I'll ask to see the pink.
- Location
- Darlington
- Location
- Cirencester
Meanwhile imports fly in, utterly disgraceful, I thought £5/t knock for non RT feed was bad enough.
All because of our friendly little Union. It’s disgusting
- Location
- Lincolnshire
£1750 lorry load for want of a sticker. Sigh.
What's the alternative scheme I can join ,I assume rt isn't a monopoly hmm
SilliamWhale
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But what is happening is they have almost turned the raw material into intellectual property
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
Exactly that.
The seed breeders have the IP on the varieties we grow so we owe them royalties for each tonne if we were to plant any home saved seed.....but this is 1000x worse given it's just a globally traded generic unbranded commodity.
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
Until that commodity hits the flour mill, bakery and is packaged as a load of bread....at which time the Red Tractor logo is nowhere to be see.
In other words it will suposedly go as feed!?
So effectively we can’t sell it without the sticker but the logo Can’t be used on the end product.
How the hell have we allowed this to happen?
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
"can't" is probably the wrong word because if someone so wished....it could. However 99% of bread and bakery goods sold are made with mixed (domestic RT and imported non-RT) flour and therefore the logo would not apply. It could be argued that this is due to the "choice" of the manufacturer.
"won't" is probably more accurate. This reinforces the perspective that RT "brand" and any supposed value they would suggest it provides is completely and utterly null, void and unachievable. On top of that, anyone in the chain using the logo on the packaging has to pay a royalty fee to the RT mafia. That alone is a significant incentive not to use the brand, especially as it provides ZERO added value to offset this cost.
Oh, and if you buy ANYTHING produced by Sainsbury the logo won't feature as they don't believe in the brand.
SilliamWhale
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Because the owners of it are highly compromised and want to sit around boardrooms with what they now see as their peers rather than representing independent farmers.
I've said it before any money you pay the NFU continues this.
SilliamWhale
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We are around the world seeing a pincer movement on farming at production level yet the input and output bit seems more luxurious
Just because
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Barley September F/A £165
Wheat November F/A £185
Wheat November F/A £185