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Today the Red Tractor Beef & Lamb Board motioned a vote of no confidence in the RT executive. This evening the TFA ran a Q and A webinar with Jim Moseley. Couple of questions came in. One asked what RT could do to help level the playing field with grain imports. Another referenced the 3 year...

In light of the latest let down for farmers who pay there wages (see the red tractor sector board passes leadership vote of no confidence thread) what do we need to do to trigger a vote on AHDB cereals future? The AHDB is clearly still not listening to farmers so time is up and direct action...

https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/red-tractor-sector-board-passes-leadership-vote-of-no-confidence

Ban non-stun slaughter Please sign and share the petition, I have finally got this through parliament, using new laws and ruling, so it's not like those in the past In modern society, we believe more consideration needs to be given to animal welfare and how livestock is treated and culled. We...

Written by Maeve Hennessy from Agriland The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) announced it is partnering with Interbev to deliver the “Let’s Change Lamb” campaign in Hauts-de-France. The campaign aims to upskill butchers and focus on smaller cuts to “drive demand” among...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland 50% of Northern Irish dairy farms inspected were found to be non-compliant with environment regulations aimed at preventing river pollution. The 339 dairy farms were inspected by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA)...

Only 6 weeks in to his new post as CEO of AHDB , Graham Wilkinson finds time for a key trip (read jolly) to meet USDA in America Back at the ranch , Red Tractor today laud an initial review commissioned by AHDB from the Birnie Consultancy on key beef and lamb assurance differentiators . a 77...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Red Tractor has said claims from English beef and lamb producers that they have “world-leading standards” look to be correct, according to a new report from the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB). The report is the first of...

Can someone just explain how this would be used?.... Untreated liquid UAN fertiliser can be applied after 1st April if agronomic justification is provided by a FACTS qualified advisor that demonstrates ammonia losses will be at or below the level of including a urease inhibitor. Is anyone else...

So, I have approximately 600 lambs and 110 cattle to sell. I am a member of QMS which I am quite happy to support and be audited by in Januaryish The question is why the effing hell do I get asked to be audited by killing houses, ABP 4 weeks ago, Kepak have done one Dunbia I think I did one...

I was shocked to see world war 3 trending on twitter last night, hadnt given much thought to the israel and HAMAS conflict until i read last night Iran were now involved firing 200 drones/missiles directly at israel and the USA was now involved trying to defend Israel..... this seems to be...

Webinar follow up: livestock and grassland Written by Becky Briggs We recently held a webinar for livestock and grassland farmers in England. A recording is embedded above. In the webinar, we gave an overview of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer and how the scheme supports both...

Your basis membership just got better Has anyone else had an email saying that the fee is going to go up by £55 per year? I'm struggling to work out what last year's cost was but I think it was around £150 (basis + facts), does that make it a 30% increase? They are trying to justify it with...

Can the plan be done by a recently retired basis advisor ? It's not like they have forgotten what pests etc are and it says nothing about current ones . My old agronomist would do it for me for a small fee

Read a snippet in the Farmers Weekly this week that seemed to imply that the new rules regarding urea and the 1st of April were a Red Tractor thing. Is it just for farm assurance or is it a defra thing, and if it`s a defra thing then what can they do if you do spread after the cut off date??

(mods please shift if this needs go somewhere else) Anyone done this? Fascinating way of phrasing multi choice questions makes it very difficult - nay impossible- to be anything but 'positive' about RT/assurance. If you have to tick 2 boxes in a section, and apart from 'none of the above'...

At a meeting last night discussing rural issues. Part of the meeting we discussed the farming scene and how tough it is ..... 2 of those present suddenly spoke out at what they had seen in various 'farming' type mags and market reports' about livestock making record prices in markets etc etc ...

Got a red tractor inspection next week ( on lambing so no spare time ) what are the new hot things to do Help appreciated

https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/farm-assurance-review-member-survey/?utm_source=crops_newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=crops&utm_content=010424 Just to let those who don't get the NFU emails that there is a survey for NFU members "to help develop and inform the...

Can a livestock farmer clarify this one please ? can a (live) animal be imported to a UK Red Tractor assured farm that is then later slaughtered in the uk become red tractor assured ? if so how long must it be on the uk farm before slaughter ? think there maybe some mis information this on X...