Good summary of the situation.
I also can't understand how the industry got into such a situation.
It was like no-one had noticed imports weren't assured. All these people did was bang on about and convince themselves we needed RT Combinables assurance. There was absolutely zero benefit to us...
Do you think you'd have got away with more viable crop if you'd have plough+combi established last autumn?
It wasn't easy with any system. Struggled to get 2 dry days in a row to get the soil moved and dry enough to combi drill.
It's a business decision isn't it. If it works for you on your farm, then crack on, what's not to like.
Less fuel, less hours sat on a tractor, potentially better soil, more drilling capacity to expand your business, etc.
Obviously have to be able to manage grass weeds, possibly with more...
I know I bang on about this, but the absolute premium meat sales happen at the independent butchers shop. High consumer trust, and most of those butchers shops don't bother with RT, but instead have the local authority food hygiene 1-5 inspection rating up in the window. Us consumers totally...
If processors and retailers want assurance, but then run off and buy imports, they should pay our assurance costs. Supermarkets could get charged a new AHDB levy for meat, dairy, fruit veg, bakery and beer products, then we could have our levy reduced (to help pay for our assurance).
VITALLY important. Strong words. Wonder if the fact they part own Assured Food Standards has any influence on their stance.
For over 3 years they've been told about cereals, and they did very little for first 30 months.
Could even say they went out of their way to make it look like they were...
Saving a drop of diesel or sequestering a bit in the soil isn't a great deal of use if you don't get the yield.
Then again, some seem to swear by the DD technique. Others swear at it.
I don't know what's best, but ploughs are reasonably reliable, although can end up with low moisture retention...
Always seems to be such contrasting experiences. Some say DD is fab and best system, others say struggle to get it to work.
Obvs we can have different local weather conditions, but where is the difference?
Is it the soil type?
Skill/knowledge/system?
How wet the particular field is in...
If they were only voting to decide if they had a vote of no confidence or not, then I think AHDB could have voted in favour of that. Although AHDB are on ownership board, so they could have been voting for no confidence in themselves, so I can see why the individual might decide to abstain...
Yes, the merchant is welcome to take samples, and could have a glance over store/facilities while they're there, even look at your pesticide records if they like.
It's probably what they used to do subconsciously. If they could see a farm had poor cleanliness, pigeons in the grain store...
Jim's job is to make Red Tractor successful. He does a pretty decent job of explaining how good RT is, promoting the scheme etc.
Just think that if he/she (although she's the chair, so more her??) don't appease the farmers then they'll have no scheme at all if NFU pull out. They're risking the...
Funnily enough, within the main Gatekeeper scheme called EFISC-GTP, which is a little bit like the UK TASCC merchant/haulier scheme but also has the rules about assuring grain with lab tests, there is a little loophole.
In the loophole, there is no need for the grain to be lab tested by the...
Does beg the question what's wrong with making all your records available to the merchant/mill, and welcoming them to visit your grain store/facilities. Could AIC find any reason to disallow that?
These mills seem content with their ability to purchase non-assured imports, so why not ours as well.
Just interested. How deep do you think you need to cultivate in summer before the CC ajd? Just a couple of inches or like 6 inches?
Suppose it would work either way? Would it?
We went straight into a stubble in spring with discs about 1.5-2"on clay, left it to dry a day, then went through...
Not exactly on the side of farmers is he.
How many times do we need to tell him, we're sick of having extra and unnecessary RT standards/costs put on us, while we watch imports infiltrate the same supermarket shelf.
The pig headedness and dancing to supermarkets' tune will be his downfall...
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