Steevo
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the point you are missing is that my wheat, sprayed by a tested sprayer ends up in the SAME product with imported wheat produced where no sprayer test was required
so whats the point ? why should we take on these extra costs when our buyers clearly do not REALLY care ?
Poses an interesting question....
If British producers only produced their product to import standards, would this be considered to be "lowering the standard" of the end product?
The quote in FW as a defence by those in favour of RT "Commingling with imported grain is inevitable when the UK is less than self-sufficient and the supply is variable" is to me the worst form of defence possible. It translates as "We think that these higher standards are incredibly important, but we also realise that the end users have no choice at all but to buy in lower standard imported product to mix it with and because of that, that's fine with us". Those dreaming up/enforcing the standards can't have it both ways!