Meanwhile the Red Tractor AHDB circus continues unabated
- Thread starter JP1
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- Location
- Essex
Getting quite serious for RT and AHDB.
- Location
- Cirencester
And so it bloody well should, they’ve been shafting us for years
- Location
- Yorks
He's got wooden ears.
Vote of no confidence today from one of the sector boards. Farmers clearly tiddled off with more and more audit burden, yet he still bangs on about RT being a fab scheme, high standards, market access, etc.
If he said he understood what farmers are saying, and they'll look to reduce our compliance costs, then he just might stand a chance of keeping his job. As it is, his career is looking shaky.
- Location
- N.Lincs
Norman Bagley from AIMS says the Red Tractor wants shoving out of the way and into an old shed..
...maybe Jim could get a job looking after it
Well there's a strange viewpoint, RT seeing themselves as a victim of their own success. Would love to know what their measurement of success is given that the primary producer isn't benefitting and, if media reports are accurate, then the RT Chair and CEO survive in office not as a result of those who pay their salaries but due to their 'friends' in the supermarkets who, with the exception of Morrisons, are not members of RT.
www.fwi.co.uk
Red Tractor 'a victim of its own success' says chief executive - Farmers Weekly
Red Tractor farm assurance is a “victim of its own success”, which is why some primary producers have little option but to be members, according to the
www.fwi.co.uk
- Location
- Northumberland
But for how long?Well there's a strange viewpoint, RT seeing themselves as a victim of their own success. Would love to know what their measurement of success is given that the primary producer isn't benefitting and, if media reports are accurate, then the RT Chair and CEO survive in office not as a result of those who pay their salaries but due to their 'friends' in the supermarkets who, with the exception of Morrisons, are not members of RT.
Red Tractor 'a victim of its own success' says chief executive - Farmers Weekly
Red Tractor farm assurance is a “victim of its own success”, which is why some primary producers have little option but to be members, according to the
It must be clear as day to the CEO and Chair that they are living on borrowed time.
They are perhaps between a rock and a hard place. From my ‘farmer’s’ point of view, they have been attempting to run RT and enact entirely new policies for the benefit of retailers rather than for the benefit of their farmer members. Perhaps retailers were wanting them to up the pace of implementation (to fit with their 2030 environmental pledges) with the upshot that it has all backfired, GFC has been binned and the future of FARM ASSURANCE (note- not RT!) is up for debate in a way it has never been before and which will hopefully lead to REAL premiums for premium FA products, where the markets want and will pay for those.
If all had gone well, the world would have been their cuttlefish. They would have been extremely well placed to take new jobs in the retail sector. As it stands, perhaps their CVs don’t currently look too impressive.
I’ve no idea what their employment contracts look like; perhaps they plan to sit tight until they are paid off, if it comes to that. Perhaps they will be past caring about the collateral reputational damage they are currently causing RT.
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Well there's a strange viewpoint, RT seeing themselves as a victim of their own success. Would love to know what their measurement of success is given that the primary producer isn't benefitting and, if media reports are accurate, then the RT Chair and CEO survive in office not as a result of those who pay their salaries but due to their 'friends' in the supermarkets who, with the exception of Morrisons, are not members of RT.
Red Tractor 'a victim of its own success' says chief executive - Farmers Weekly
Red Tractor farm assurance is a “victim of its own success”, which is why some primary producers have little option but to be members, according to the
Morrisons employee is on the RT board I think. Nice and cosy
The Red Tractor website is terribly out of date. The page on sector board updates are all from July 2023
redtractorassurance.org.uk
It also lists Tim Rycroft as a director.
Updates from your sector board meetings - Red Tractor Assurance
redtractorassurance.org.uk
- Location
- Northumberland
… Whereas now Tim has moved on to better things; he’s just become director of an enthusiasts car club of which I’m a memberThe Red Tractor website is terribly out of date. The page on sector board updates are all from July 2023
It also lists Tim Rycroft as a director.Updates from your sector board meetings - Red Tractor Assurance
.Doesn't Christine Tacon like vintage cars and takes part in the London to Brighton run. She not in the club too, is she.… Whereas now Tim has moved on to better things; he’s just become director of an enthusiasts car club of which I’m a member
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- Location
- Northumberland
Not so far as I’m aware, no.Doesn't Christine Tacon like vintage cars and takes part in the London to Brighton run. She not in the club too, is she.
Club members did have a little local difficulty a couple of years back though, when it was felt that the club board was not acting in the club’s best interests. We had one hellova job deposing the board, which was using all of its levers of power to try to stay put.
- Location
- south norfolk, uk
That sounds familiar