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<blockquote data-quote="Chips" data-source="post: 7636218" data-attributes="member: 432"><p>Climate check is a faff for sure and as a one man band I find it as hard as the next man to find the time , but it is one of the most important pieces of work you do in terms of getting extra value into your milk . The tool is already recognised as the most comprehensive in the world due to the amount of farmers completing it and how in depth it goes . This has already allowed us to prove not only that Europe has half the CF of the global average but also that Arla has a slightly lower CF within Europe . This then allows Arla to really fight our corner with policy makers , i.e we shouldn't be down scaling dairy production at all within Europe as it would only be replaced with dairy at twice the CF . </p><p>Things of course aren't perfect with the tool yet and a lot of people have highlighted how hard it can be to obtain accurate diesel records from contractors , but if we don't ask we don't get , and in time as modern tractors with the tech to record fuel use get more common place coupled with many customers asking their contractors for this info will result in a more and more accurate figure in future . This will then allow us to see which are the more efficient systems which in turn will allow us to share this data and save us all money and also keep us lowering our CF.</p><p>If we were to instead just keep taking standardised figures for everything, we of course end up with the standardised CF of the global average .</p><p>With regards to the duplication of AG and Red tractor this is something I agree with and hopefully in time maybe something could be done on this front , the difficulty is UK customers insist on RT and the inspections are quite different . The inspection intervals vary too as RT is standard every 18mths but AG is risk based thus rewarding high standard farms with far less inspections than RT but targeting lower standard farms with more frequent inspections which I believe to be fair .</p><p>Maybe a solution would be if we could get the inspectors trained in both Audits in the UK and allow high standard farms to choose to have more frequent inspections to fall inline with RT , i.e every 18mths . The downside to this of course is it would incur more cost to Arla which ultimately costs us all and not just the UK .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chips, post: 7636218, member: 432"] Climate check is a faff for sure and as a one man band I find it as hard as the next man to find the time , but it is one of the most important pieces of work you do in terms of getting extra value into your milk . The tool is already recognised as the most comprehensive in the world due to the amount of farmers completing it and how in depth it goes . This has already allowed us to prove not only that Europe has half the CF of the global average but also that Arla has a slightly lower CF within Europe . This then allows Arla to really fight our corner with policy makers , i.e we shouldn't be down scaling dairy production at all within Europe as it would only be replaced with dairy at twice the CF . Things of course aren't perfect with the tool yet and a lot of people have highlighted how hard it can be to obtain accurate diesel records from contractors , but if we don't ask we don't get , and in time as modern tractors with the tech to record fuel use get more common place coupled with many customers asking their contractors for this info will result in a more and more accurate figure in future . This will then allow us to see which are the more efficient systems which in turn will allow us to share this data and save us all money and also keep us lowering our CF. If we were to instead just keep taking standardised figures for everything, we of course end up with the standardised CF of the global average . With regards to the duplication of AG and Red tractor this is something I agree with and hopefully in time maybe something could be done on this front , the difficulty is UK customers insist on RT and the inspections are quite different . The inspection intervals vary too as RT is standard every 18mths but AG is risk based thus rewarding high standard farms with far less inspections than RT but targeting lower standard farms with more frequent inspections which I believe to be fair . Maybe a solution would be if we could get the inspectors trained in both Audits in the UK and allow high standard farms to choose to have more frequent inspections to fall inline with RT , i.e every 18mths . The downside to this of course is it would incur more cost to Arla which ultimately costs us all and not just the UK . [/QUOTE]
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