Red Tractor meat

Flossie

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Lancs
We import a lot of in-calf dairy heifers from Denmark and they go off with a RT sticker on the kill sheet with no problems.

They are treated EXACTLY like our own homebred animals (or likely better as Danish farms have no TB issues) so RT would be monumentally stupid to try and say they are not assured
They are, however, expected to be on farm for 90 days before milk is allowed in to the tank (No, I haven't worked that one out either)

Is this a case that beef is a good price and obviously in demand, so nothing is being said about it?
I'm not saying it's sold as RT, just that it's wanted.
 

Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
Is this a case that beef is a good price and obviously in demand, so nothing is being said about it?
I'm not saying it's sold as RT, just that it's wanted.

Always been the case even when paid buttons.

There should be no penalty for having non-UK cows - and let's be honest, their farms and management are often streets ahead of us (albeit I'm talking Scandi here)
 

Hampton

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BASIS
Location
Shropshire
We import a lot of in-calf dairy heifers from Denmark and they go off with a RT sticker on the kill sheet with no problems.

They are treated EXACTLY like our own homebred animals (or likely better as Danish farms have no TB issues) so RT would be monumentally stupid to try and say they are not assured
They are, however, expected to be on farm for 90 days before milk is allowed in to the tank (No, I haven't worked that one out either)
Do you not get less as culls due to foreign tag though?
Obvs ABP pickstock etc pay less for non uk
 

Hampton

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BASIS
Location
Shropshire
Don't sell through ABP and if we are being penalised, it's very well hidden - & TBH, I don't follow the beef market. Not our primary concern
An old grid, but says -£1 on here
That’s clean but think it has the same on cow grid
 

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Birdlipper

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Trade
Red tractor has the union flag in the logo, there by declaring British (which most on here would be in favour of?). That means born, reared and slaughtered in UK. Sorry Rick your culls can’t be sold as British (irrespective on length of residency). Could be sold as assured with the red tractor being amended to incorporate a Danish flag. Good luck with that one.
 

Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
Red tractor has the union flag in the logo, there by declaring British (which most on here would be in favour of?). That means born, reared and slaughtered in UK. Sorry Rick your culls can’t be sold as British (irrespective on length of residency). Could be sold as assured with the red tractor being amended to incorporate a Danish flag. Good luck with that one.

Once the ears are off, they can be anything the processor wants ... including organic

Scam if they are deducting £1/kg just because there's a DK tag. Total scam
 

sidjon

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Location
EXMOOR
Once the ears are off, they can be anything the processor wants ... including organic

Scam if they are deducting £1/kg just because there's a DK tag. Total

According to the RT website, the animal must have a UK passport, therefore has to have been born here. But not necessarily on a RT assured farm. (yet).
Killed here, but can add none rt meat to ready meals and mince as long as more than 50% is rt, so becomes rt meat🤔
 

Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
According to the RT website, the animal must have a UK passport, therefore has to have been born here. But not necessarily on a RT assured farm. (yet).

Well that’s fine then as we have to submit the white Danish passport as soon as the heifers are on the holding to BCMS and in return get a U.K. one.
 

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