Courier
Member
- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
Who’s betting that some of this mouse infested crop gets exported from Australia, screened and end up in the UK as “Farm Assured” ?
Red Tractor - Mass Balance
- Thread starter Steevo
- Start date
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
You think they’ll bother screening it? Just mix it with a bigger batch I reckon…!
Courier
Member
- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
Actually I do think they will screen the actual mice out otherwise the amount of blood squeezed out during mechanical handling will probably increase the moisture content - the droppings will remain.
Dman2
Member
- Location
- Durham, UK
Have a red tractor inspection in morning
Refusing to this.
Will tell her as soon as she gets here, might just speed the job up a bit.
think there is also one asking how many bales of silage we have made
Will get the same reply
Mind your own effin business
Refusing to this.
Will tell her as soon as she gets here, might just speed the job up a bit.
think there is also one asking how many bales of silage we have made
Will get the same reply
Mind your own effin business
- Location
- Northumberlandia
Grain Coop tells me just tell them your tonnage brought to us its all there in black n white.
I dont send grain anywhere else.
Maybe reply along the lines of “it is what it is”.
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- Location
- South Shropshire
If you don’t have a weighbridge it really is just a waste of time.
In fact it’s a waste of time if you do have one
In fact it’s a waste of time if you do have one
strawturner
Member
- Location
- East Midlands
Being a member of Red Tractor is not compulsory, if you don't agree with some of the requirements to meet the standards perhaps you (we) should review our need to be a member...
You just have to meet the requirements as they are written. As a seed grower I am required to be in a ACCS to get my seed premium.
In principle I don’t have a big problem with farm assurance as a second check on what I am doing, but it has to my mind got out of hand and is claiming to be things it cannot possible be, it is asking for things that make no difference to food safety, so as far as I’m concerned if they want to play silly buggers, then so can I.
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Had my inspection last week , told her my views on mass balance , then gave a figure ... I lied as Arnie would say .
tullah
Member
- Location
- Linconshire
They don't know what you've got in those high empty dusty bins. Complete waste of everybody's time and expense
Mine's all in store , she could have added the tickets up
- Location
- East yorks
It is if you have no storage of your own
- Location
- Lincs / Cambs border
Friend of mine was told last week during his inspection that he should log every load tipped into his store including the field number and also record when loaded out including the field number it came from . Anyone else had this or are the inspectors just making it up as they go along . He didn’t pass by the way .
nope - I think the new rule requires you have a stock balance, you don’t even have to tell them what that balance is just say “yes I know how much stock I have thanks“
I will not be sharing my stock numbers with red tractor- this is valuable and highly commercially sensitive data that their terms and conditions allow them to sell
I was told the information was strictly confidential ,, ha ha ha
read the t&c ‘s on red tractors website, they openly admit to selling and sharing data and uk stock levels is about as valuable as data gets in agriculture
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it’s is compulsory if you want access to any Uk grain market other than rat bait, imports with no farm level assurance get that access by default
- Location
- Lincs / Cambs border
We could name on here the inspectors that come up with their own special rules and if anyone gets them they can be prepared with a special answer or refuse to have them .