snipe
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Is Red tractor detrimental to your mental health
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snipe
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- west yorkshire
I don’t think most farmer would complain about having to be assured. It’s the way it is done and the fact a lot of the rules are pointless. Plus most retailers see it as worthless. Would you be happy having to have an MOT and driving license to drive your car in this country but foreign drivers could come and drive here legally without a license or mot.
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- South Molton
Your compliance on seat belts could be checked at any time by an officer of the law.
Use of a condom would be check by the other party involved at every occasion if they wished for compliance
I've no experience of the arable assurance schemes. I do know I have to record it for organic.
Some protocols are ridiculous, marking a cow that's had a treatment on robots is madness. So the milk withhold is one day, mark her with a spray mark that the fudging robot cant see......that lasts a week. Completely ludicrous
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- South Molton
Know of someone with dual citizenship.
When they lose their licence for totting up or drink driving they just move countries.
Done it more than once
snipe
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That's not what I have said
SilliamWhale
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- Somerset UK
in a car that is not built to the same safety or emission regulations.
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- Northumberland
I’m not a tin hat conspiracy theorist but it does make you wonder whether this ‘making it difficult for the little guy’ is part of the WEF’s Great Reset - reshaping food production and distribution systems globally to advantage multinational companies.
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- Durham, UK
The buggers will be hungry soon if china kicks off with tiwan. That will destabilize the world markets further
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- Essex
I wonder if they sell it for £20 less or would it get the magic sticker?Rt caused me stress today £20 less / ton for non assured milling wheat onto a boat .mite be blackmailed into having to pay the b######s .needs everyone to leave ,can't afford to lose £6000
How can they charge a premium for basic farm products ?
feed wheat is feed wheat- the competition is from imports, the merchants have to match these prices, be better value or undercut them to have to a sale .
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- Essex
Yes I know, but do you honestly believe when they are putting a boatload together, they don't say to the buyer "of course it's all farm assured which adds another £x per tonne"?
It has a value, just not for the producer.
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No I dont - when commodities are bought in large tonnages/volumes a small difference in price adds up to £1000's .You are dreaming if you think an export/import trader will give a premium for a nice story or say thankyou for bureaucracy and complication .
What does help the merchant is an excuse to make a deduction on sourcing whilst still being able to access a main stream commodity market without penalty on sale = margin .
Feed wheat is feed wheat - collection cost ,MC, protein %, admixture , bushel weight ,pests etc are what matter !
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- Essex
You may well be right. They do know how to charge though...
Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
Yes, exactly. The farmer has a legal responsibility to ensure his produce is safe. That is regardless of farm assurance audits. If my milk was not fit according to the myriad ways the buyer tests the product regularly and takes samples daily, then I am penalised or they refuse to collect and am ultimately responsible for possibly a tanker or silo load of milk. This is regardless of any farm assurance audit.
we have done!
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I had a very interesting conversation with the Oxford University Hospital Cardiac Rehab section today as a follow up to my Angioplasty procedure of just over 2 weeks ago. It was explained to me what all the 8 different drugs I am now on do and why it is important that I take them. I was asked what side effects I am having to which I replied only positive ones. All in all, I feel much better. It will take a year before they are confident enough to reduce, delete or replace any of those drugs. Some, I will have to take for the rest on my life.
Then we got onto to the subject as to why I had a heart attack and no surprises that the word STRESS reared its head, yet again!
In particular how there is often a delayed reaction that can cause serious effects months, if not years after a serious stress event
Fortunately they can provide good techniques as to being able to recognise early and deal with Stress before it become too much of an issue. However, it is VERY IMPORTANT for me, that any stress be kept to a minimum to prevent any more heart attacks in the near future.
So you lot at the Assurance Schemes, you’d better watch out or you may find yourselves in Court one day!
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There is one rather annoying side effect that poor Mrs Two Tone has just reminded me of.
Like many of us , I suffer from Barley Rash. Obviously at this time of the year, it is rather inevitable that I’m going to get it.
The meds I am taking are designed to reduce stress on my heart. In effect, they want it to work more slowly, but taking bigger gulps of blood. A bit like the Americans fitting large engines in their sports cars, rather than Lotus, who fit a small engine and tune the hell out of it.
To reduce blood pressure some of the drugs thin my blood. This has the effect of ‘melting’ any of the scabs formed where I might have scratched a little to hard. Resulting in a lot of leaks! Like this:
Modern washing machines working at low temperatures are not good at get rid of blood stains.
Then we got onto to the subject as to why I had a heart attack and no surprises that the word STRESS reared its head, yet again!
In particular how there is often a delayed reaction that can cause serious effects months, if not years after a serious stress event
Fortunately they can provide good techniques as to being able to recognise early and deal with Stress before it become too much of an issue. However, it is VERY IMPORTANT for me, that any stress be kept to a minimum to prevent any more heart attacks in the near future.
So you lot at the Assurance Schemes, you’d better watch out or you may find yourselves in Court one day!
Edit:
There is one rather annoying side effect that poor Mrs Two Tone has just reminded me of.
Like many of us , I suffer from Barley Rash. Obviously at this time of the year, it is rather inevitable that I’m going to get it.
The meds I am taking are designed to reduce stress on my heart. In effect, they want it to work more slowly, but taking bigger gulps of blood. A bit like the Americans fitting large engines in their sports cars, rather than Lotus, who fit a small engine and tune the hell out of it.
To reduce blood pressure some of the drugs thin my blood. This has the effect of ‘melting’ any of the scabs formed where I might have scratched a little to hard. Resulting in a lot of leaks! Like this:
Modern washing machines working at low temperatures are not good at get rid of blood stains.
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- Yorks
You've got a good point there.
Merchant buys non-assured (I hate that term
), pays a few £/tonne less, then sends it to the docks where it gets loaded on with RT grain.RT has caused the farmer a totally unnecessary price reduction. Not sure if I blame RT or the merchant.