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I can't wait. Each mill will want its own assurance scheme, so will each maltster and brewer and supermarket and candlestick maker. Why don't we have one assurance scheme that covers everything? Oh ..hang on...
One has to consider who the drivers are behind assurance.
Can’t be the supermarkets surely as the majority (?) of foodstuffs they stock would not be covered by any assurance scheme over and above food safety standards… can it?
I can't wait. Each mill will want its own assurance scheme, so will each maltster and brewer and supermarket and candlestick maker. Why don't we have one assurance scheme that covers everything? Oh ..hang on...
The drivers behind assurance was the NFU as it was another way of extracting money from their members as well as extracting from farmers who refused to be members of the union. The Nfu set up RT and part own it.
The None Farming Union do not act on behalf of their 15,000 farmers members. They act on behalf of all their other members which are corporates or village folk who have no connection to farming other than watching it out of their rural retreat windows.
Yes, I know exactly who are the drivers behind RT …
My post was slightly tongue-in-cheek but now “the dream” has been sold to the supermarkets, I wonder if they will “allow” U.K. farmers to have no assurance schemes backing the primary products
For example, as a dairy farmer, I have no option but to be RT assured even though only a small proportion of my product will be on supermarket shelves … in common with most farmers who don’t sell direct. Even the aligned milk is pooled despite the extra hoops aligned farmers have to jump over
@7610 super q suggested that assurance schemes could be done away with. Whilst we may all want that nirvana, the cat is out of the bag and the horse has left the stable
Supermarkets don't want it as there's nothing there labelled as TickBox bog standard RT stuff. They prefer UK Quality Grain going into their products on shelves for shoppers without all the pretence of RTOne has to consider who the drivers are behind assurance.
Can’t be the supermarkets surely as the majority (?) of foodstuffs they stock would not be covered by any assurance scheme over and above food safety standards… can it?
NFU member by any chance?I can't wait. Each mill will want its own assurance scheme, so will each maltster and brewer and supermarket and candlestick maker. Why don't we have one assurance scheme that covers everything? Oh ..hang on...
I can't wait. Each mill will want its own assurance scheme, so will each maltster and brewer and supermarket and candlestick maker. Why don't we have one assurance scheme that covers everything? Oh ..hang on...
Supermarkets don't want it as there's nothing there labelled as TickBox bog standard RT stuff. They prefer UK Quality Grain going into their products on shelves for shoppers without all the pretence of RT
In fact with the publicity about the tick box rubbish, supermarkets won't want to be associated with RT rubbishThe supermarkets have their own assurance schemes, some of which attract a healthy premium. Why would they bother with RT? It offers no commercial advantage to them.
You surely have enough volume behind you that someone somewhere would buy your milk no matter what?
I wonder if you couldn't go selling direct since you are the main player on the sainted isle and produce milk so full of solids it goes on your corn flakes like cold engine oil?
Aren't they bust alreadyI wonder how all the food manufactorers and supermarkets managed to survive before FA and all the Cross compliance rules !?!
Food must have been so unsafe before all that nonsense !!
Lets start a rumour that RT is about to go bust (which it probably isn't)..........just in the hope farmers decide not to pay into the scheme ............
Morally bankruptAren't they bust already
Aren't they bust already
The need for assurance will just end overnight. If it doesn’t exist the mills will just carry on without it using U.K. law for things like sprayer MOT and the fact we can’t use banned pesticides like other countries do then their stuff gets imported to us and enters our food chain.