Steevo
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- Gloucestershire
It sounds a bit like working for the local council.
Andrew Blenkiron
- Thread starter principal skinner
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It sounds a bit like working for the local council.
Somebody want to ask that bugger who the fecking "bad" are in his jumped up opinion
Actually I will as he is most likely reading this, Andy who is it you consider bad ? and while you are at it who are the backstabbers ?
perhaps he will have the guts to answer but I won't be holding my bloody breath
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- Hammerwich
I think that is what's called tripling down on statements. Farmers standing up for themselves is bad in his eyes.
Everyone is allowed a view, but to call them "backstabbers" or "bad" just because they don't agree with him and his views just shows extreme arrogance.
He has created this storm all by himself. He literally is what's "bad" about the farming gravy train. An irony that is probably lost on him.
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- Lincolnshire
Which was, of course, one of the main reasons we all signed up to it.
Just to note there are threads here on the virtues of RT, which we almost all agree we would leave at the drop of a hat. This thread is about should a leading proponent of RT be sacked for essentially slagging off most of his subscribers - essentially "taking a dump in his own back yard".
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- Lincolnshire
I'd like to add, perhaps this negative publicity may have his farming employer consider his position? I'd now actively avoid purchasing any food he has had a hand in producing. It's straight out of the Gerald Ratner school of self promotion. There's no stronger way to poison your brand than this, and this chap - who may be perfectly nice to have a pint with in the pub - is now always going to be remembered for this. And more articles in fw won't change this.
No you are just a pleb like the rest of us, you need to find a NFU guy with views broadly in line with yours then kiss his ar*e so he brings up any grievances you may have with the hierarchy, if he can be bothered. Hopefully this won’t limit his future ambition with the union, in which case he may decide not to say anything and tow the union line.Can I vote to sack him again....
@AM_Arable is it ok for a farmer focus writer to promote none farm businesses they are employed by in their column?
do you think this is the expectation of readers of a farmer focus column ?
personally I would expect farmer focus to be mostly about farming ?
do you think this is the expectation of readers of a farmer focus column ?
personally I would expect farmer focus to be mostly about farming ?
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i’m confident that i’m very much on the “bad” list of “naive” “back stabbers”
More than happy to be there as well !
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- Limousin, France
As an outsider looking in RT started out with the best intentions for UK farming. I have read this thread from page 1 to here and the sad and nearest thing I can compare RT to is Landover started out with the right vehicle and ended up almost no where. Sad times.
The boys in the top jobs are not your best friends, you are walked over or used so they can climb the greased pole too the top. One of mums old sayings comes to mind, be nice to people on the way up because you might meet them on the way down.
The boys in the top jobs are not your best friends, you are walked over or used so they can climb the greased pole too the top. One of mums old sayings comes to mind, be nice to people on the way up because you might meet them on the way down.
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Wellytrack
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Okay, so I can see how this shouldn’t be made personal. But it appears to me that calling any NFU dissenters, leavers or member’s choosing to stay but expecting reform - back stabbers he has chosen to make it personal.
On another note, as someone far far removed from the quality of land and scale he is used to Id like to see how clever he is at feeding himself, his family and keeping them clothed and socially mobile on a 100 acre farm of LFA if tables were turned.
Perhaps he would choose to cut out some parasitic loses....
On another note, as someone far far removed from the quality of land and scale he is used to Id like to see how clever he is at feeding himself, his family and keeping them clothed and socially mobile on a 100 acre farm of LFA if tables were turned.
Perhaps he would choose to cut out some parasitic loses....
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- Essex
This is unbelievable and shows red tractor and fw in such a bad lightmaybe £1000 prizes explain the loyalty and provision of a “farmer focus” column to pedal propaganda and insult farmers?
Farmers Weekly editor takes £1,000 Red Tractor prize - British Guild of Agricultural Journalists
The Guild represents editors and journalists, broadcasters, photographers and PR/marketing specialists working in agriculture, commercial horticulture and other rural industries.www.gaj.org.uk
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- Lincolnshire
It can't help but be personal now.
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- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
#circlejerk
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- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
A Farmer Focus writer’s job is only supposed to last for 2 years!
How long has Andrew Blenkiron been doing it? 10+ years?
Content subject is unrestricted, but will be edited by FW.
What FW is looking for is actual Farmer/Farm Managers’s experience as in “what is going on on a real, typical farm and the general thoughts of the writer” at that time.
How on earth can Andrew Blenkiron be described as a typical Farmer/Farm Manager?
It should never have become personal but when he started throwing insults around in the Ag press he made it personal
You can not blame any farmer for responding to that
I actually have a feeling I may have sat next to him at a NFUS AGM last year ! Seemed a nice guy then (if it was him, I can’t recall totally, drink may have been involved !)
warksfarmer
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The NFU has the single worst marketing department in the history of the world. A complete and utter shambles and couldn’t market a fridge freezer to somebody living in 40 degree heat in Egypt. They are incompetent at best.
Their marketing strategy is to market to their members
FFS who’s idiotic idea is that?
How’s about marketing U.K. AG PLC to the 65 million people living on this island for starters and then marketing our products worldwide to increase sales?
They do nothing for its members, absolutely nothing.
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- Hammerwich
Well, if nothing else - this thread is his legacy.
The NFU has the single worst marketing department in the history of the world. A complete and utter shambles and couldn’t market a fridge freezer to somebody living in 40 degree heat in Egypt. They are incompetent at best.
Their marketing strategy is to market to their members
FFS who’s idiotic idea is that?
How’s about marketing U.K. AG PLC to the 65 million people living on this island for starters and then marketing our products worldwide to increase sales?
They do nothing for its members, absolutely nothing.
Guy Smith says they’re are all REALLY nice people though and I am sure he is not at all wrong about that, I beet even Mr Blekiron is a nice enough chap really
clearly worthy their part of that £ 21 million annual payroll
I don’t think any of this is run like a real business where anyone who underperforms or fails too ghetto results is fired. I get the impression its all nice and friendly, Farmer officers are grateful. To the payroll staff for their support rather than ever questioning of their value or effectiveness
It’s all rather polite ....... nice as that maybe, thats not how you run business of that kind of scale successfully
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- Lincolnshire
Yeah, if you Google him this thread is maybe sixth on the list now.
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- East meath/dublin
