Recent content by Cecil snear

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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Get em gone,keep breeding ewe numbers tight, we don't want to be copying the dairy boys when milk got to 50p litre
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    GFC was to go ahead - now not going ahead

    You know that and I know that just hope TB remembers too
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    GFC was to go ahead - now not going ahead

    I really think he's caught between the devil and the deep blue sea,which ever way he swings is going to have huge impact on his presidency
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Just to put a dampener on the orphan lamb at £86,it was a mate of mine lamb born in October, weaned and put in the orphan lambs for a bit of fun
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Grandad bought in a orphan lamb from a neighbour in the early 1950s which came in with the lamb dysentery bug ,if I remember him telling me he lost nearly half his lamb crop to lamb dysentery from that one lamb ,only ever bought rams in after that, which my Father did and I've continued to do...
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Did you have any in to catch the trade?
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Saw them this morning, very smart hoggs ,well fed and they did stand out, Don't see blackies of that quality in exeter very often ,must of made you a pound me thinks 😉
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    GFC was to go ahead - now not going ahead

    Farmers weekly interview , end of October
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    Defra Cereal Stocks Survey - February 2024

    Don't tell em pike !!
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    GFC was to go ahead - now not going ahead

    Haven't you seen the interview with minette claiming her inbox was full of members who were telling her we have to get this done on GFC, but I've yet to meet anyone who wants to get GFC done
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    GFC was to go ahead - now not going ahead

    Well done Tom for actually engaging with a grassroots farmer answering their questions and concerns, I don't think we would have had the same from the previous president in her final hurrah, hopefully a new regime with a bit of fight, but time will tell
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    GFC was to go ahead - now not going ahead

    But if GFC did happen and Tom Bradshaw told members to suspend there membership until further notice it would be met with unanimous support across our industry, I've told a senior NFU man it's about time they said NO to demands of retailers and not just roll over and continue to let them have...
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    GFC was to go ahead - now not going ahead

    I was in a room of farmers last week, someone bought up the RT review , was explaining to them about the new GFC standards, they didn't have a clue about GFC and many were NFU members,i think the NFU are trying to keep GFC off the agenda for as long as possible, nothing to see here attitude...
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    Red tractor stakeholder survey on governance

    From reading the above RT are going to crack on with GFC from 1st April as planned
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