Chicken shortage

4course

Member
Location
north yorks
We grow 20,000kg of mushrooms each week and it is getting very difficult to find people to pick them. It’s a bit like dairy farming, they double in size every day and you can’t switch it off on Sundays, bank holidays and Christmas. It takes 6 weeks of planning to organise a day off for everyone on Christmas Day! We pay living wage + a good bonus for picking faster. We are competing with huge amounts of imported Polish mushrooms being picked at £4/hr. Local chicken factories have increased wages to £10.50/hr to keep/encourage staff, (mostly Eastern European with settled status).
and they will soon be of to get their hgv cos according my driver pal currently over £20/hour for 35 hours is easily attainable and thats up here, and so will everyone else employed on a farm
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
so on the news tonight - “unemployment in under 25’s is high” followed by a load of 18-25 yr olds saying despite applying for loads of job they just can’t get work

square that circle ! - most looked capable of catching a chicken to me !
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
so on the news tonight - “unemployment in under 25’s is high” followed by a load of 18-25 yr olds saying despite applying for loads of job they just can’t get work

square that circle ! - most looked capable of catching a chicken to me !
But Blair told them they would never have to get their hands dirty
University for all
Let the poles in to do the dirty work
 

Estate fencing.

Member
Livestock Farmer
Iv got an older brother who would let his family starve not to do job that he feels is below him.
His got a well paid job, but has a clearer, gardener, kids go to nursery, a dog walker and the cars get valeted every weekend.
He is much worse off than me because won't do anything that is menial but wants the perfect life.
 

Exfarmer

Member
Location
Bury St Edmunds
Iv got an older brother who would let his family starve not to do job that he feels is below him.
His got a well paid job, but has a clearer, gardener, kids go to nursery, a dog walker and the cars get valeted every weekend.
He is much worse off than me because won't do anything that is menial but wants the perfect life.
Does he pay to go to the gym too? There are tens of thousands of muppetts out there and wonder why they have no money either
 

Ffermer Bach

Member
Livestock Farmer
If only all bosses thought the same way!
A big problem, is people at the top often feel they know more than the people at the bottom, so are unwilling to listen to or ask advice from people on the coal face. I used to work for a large training organisation, who have now lost all their training contracts, but for years created systems that that were bad for the "coal face workers" and not good for the employers we dealt with either. Many years ago, I had someone digging out my ditches, and he watched me working doing my admin, and he said "if I organised my company the way your firm is organised I would go out of business!", he was right, it just took another 22 years. I am not saying all workers know everything, and the upper echelons know nothing, but a bit of humility and inquisitiveness from the top could improve things greatly. Best car factory in the world Nissan in Sunderland, worst car firm in recent history British Leyland. Same British workers, different managers and management culture!
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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    Votes: 62 35.0%
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    Votes: 28 15.8%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 4 2.3%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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