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    Situation Vacant Skilled Arable Operator

    Stevens Farm (Hawkhurst)Ltd Permanent Position: Skilled Arable Operator Background Stevens Farm is a 1400 hectare mixed farming business, based in Hawkhurst, Weald of Kent. Currently farming 100 hectares of top fruit, 1300 hectares of arable mainly focusing on winter cropping. We have been...
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    Red Tractor start 2023 with another embarassment😂

    So if any of the packaging you pack into has the red tractor marque on it, you have to register for a red tractor licencee and you are then charged prorata depending on how much packaging you use with their marque through the year. You will also be subject to an unannounced audit to do...
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    Red Tractor start 2023 with another embarassment😂

    I understand the frustration and I want reform as much as the next guy, but this is out the control of Red Tractor in this case. I was only expressing my opinion that we need to be careful that we do not give Red Tractor easy scores to come back at farmers, when we try and call them out and it...
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    Red Tractor start 2023 with another embarassment😂

    Being a Red Tractor apple supplier to the major multiples I can tell you this would be my worst nightmare, as much as I dont like Red Tractor and would like to see them cut down to size, this is not the fault of Red Tractor, there are two sceanarios here that could have led to this situation...
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    Recovering land after deep ploughing

    Put it back to arable as it was before
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    Recovering land after deep ploughing

    Not totally sure, sure as hell don’t make a lot of sense
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    Recovering land after deep ploughing

    Unlikely to be possible unfortunately - also take a very long time as some single furrow contraption
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    Recovering land after deep ploughing

    Part of an estate we have taken on has been deep ploughed over the winter (circa 350mm) ready for vines, this is now looking as if it is going to fall out of bed and we are going to farm it along with the rest of the estate. Problem is the top soil is currently buried, my thought is to...
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    The Red Tractor ACCS referendum

    I presume someone has/is appraoching NFU???? I (maybe wrongly) just get the feeling that with the way government policy is forming with trade deals if Red Tractor wasn't limiting opportunity before, going forward it certainly will, we need to be freeing this industry of red tape and not...
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    The Red Tractor ACCS referendum

    When you say massive Clive, how massive, too massive for a serious and very public crowd funding, that NFU and RT happened to learn about....to get them worried enough to actually start listening??? If you catch my drift....
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    The Red Tractor ACCS referendum

    Social media in the past 48 hours has been alive with the Australia free trade deal, it is now fairly obvious that this government believes that British Ag should compete on the global stage without the protectionism that it has enjoyed prior to Brexit. So with this in mind, should Red Tractor...
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    The Red Tractor ACCS referendum

    I am not sure now they could police ELMs considering their currnet audit is 85/90% paperwork. However, the way that Moseley spoke yesterday it had obviously been an aspiration of his.
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    The Red Tractor ACCS referendum

    Red Tractor seem to be extremely good at dodging the main point that until British Food across the board attracts a premium for being RT assured its taking away from British Agriculture. Now if RT assured food attracted a meaningful premium I doubt this debate would have got off the floor...
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    Todays Red Tractor Webinar - My questions

    So only 4.5 million turnover, so a serious legal challenge if possible would send them bust???
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    Todays Red Tractor Webinar - My questions

    Think we are going to have to fight hard for this....but I truly believe we have too
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