Crop assurance scraping for failures

[whindy]

We have just failed crop assurance!
The reason was for the diesel tank.
We have a 5000l steel bunded tank with the pump and pip in a cabinet on the end apparently the pump pipes etc have to be in the main bund. As the cabinet is not capable of holding the 5000l if it leaked.
These tanks are still sold as being compliant with the current regulations.
You just wonder what the next nit pick will be.
Now expected to buy a new tank or build a bund.

 

[davidroberts30]

Or wave the current legislation at them and tell them 2 choices accept or foxtrot oscar

 

[cousinjack]

Our tank is similar….
no issues here ?
Is the box over halfway up the side of the tank ? Then surely it wouldn’t ever get that high as the fuel would naturally find its own level within the tank and bund ?

 

[upnortheast]

Tell them it was installed before ( I think it`s ) 1991.

 

[7610 super q]

Supposed to tuck the hose on my plastic tank inside the bund, but it's a squeeze, and the hose can get dirty from the crud in the bottom of the bund. So it stays outside.......except for one day of the year....

 

[David.]

I think nozzle and hose, etc are actually meant to live within the bund.

 

[7610 super q]

Supposed to tuck the hose on my plastic tank inside the bund, but it's a squeeze, and the hose can get dirty from the crud in the bottom of the bund. So it stays outside.......except for one day of the year....

Strangely, it's the same day as the knapsack sprayer vanishes.

 

[David.]

Wasn't there a kids nursery rhyme about the knapsack ran away with the slug-pelleter?

 

[davidroberts30]

Tell them it was installed before ( I think it`s ) 1991.

In wales that doesnt matter anymore

 

[quattro]

Same as chemical store is totally empty on inspection day also don’t need list of chemicals in store

 

[upnortheast]

Reading up on health & safety policy ahead of a F/A visit
Legislation said you don`t need one if less than 5 employees.
Yes you do, according to F/A man

Printed a standard one off just in case so got a tick.

Seems it`s very important to have a no smoking sign in the dairy. -- though no assesors have noticed for 14 years
Some of the things they ask are just bloody ridiculous

 

[7610 super q]

This is one of the most annoying things about Red Tractor. Different inspectors, different interpretation of the rules, different bees in bonnets.
We all chuckle to ourselves after we've had an " easy " inspection with a pragmatic inspector, not so much chuckling after a " difficult " inspection with a pen pusher.

 

[Woldgrain Storage]

Seems it`s very important to have a no smoking sign in the dairy.
Some of the things they ask are just bloody ridiculous

You'll also need a no vaping sign too.

 

[T Hectares]

I heard of farms in the south west getting non conformance’s for not having PA9d for letting off Actellic bombs

 

[Barleymow]

Leave its that simple

 

[whindy]

Leave its that simple

Can't leve as as have free range hens and mill mix.so one assurance fail can affect other s

 

[An Gof]

Can't leve as as have free range hens and mill mix.so one assurance fail can affect other s

Why does that make a difference? Inconsistency yet again between schemes. If you have FA Beef and Lamb you can feed them your home grown non assured grain with no problems.
Whole thing is a farce.

 

[egbert]

Red lives in a recently installed single skin 'water' tank here, on blockwork plinth inside block bund*, in lean to.
Pipe hangs above bunded area.
I'd had a new tank picked up, then saw it need a leccy pump to get fuel out....that went straight back.

(*and we did get around rendering the block wall after a year or three!)

No RT problems to date.

 

[SilliamWhale]

We have just failed crop assurance!
The reason was for the diesel tank.
We have a 5000l steel bunded tank with the pump and pip in a cabinet on the end apparently the pump pipes etc have to be in the main bund. As the cabinet is not capable of holding the 5000l if it leaked.
These tanks are still sold as being compliant with the current regulations.
You just wonder what the next nit pick will be.
Now expected to buy a new tank or build a bund.

You have the National Farmers Union to thank for this increase in red tape for no gain

 

[Zippy768]

We have just failed crop assurance!
The reason was for the diesel tank.
We have a 5000l steel bunded tank with the pump and pip in a cabinet on the end apparently the pump pipes etc have to be in the main bund. As the cabinet is not capable of holding the 5000l if it leaked.
These tanks are still sold as being compliant with the current regulations.
You just wonder what the next nit pick will be.
Now expected to buy a new tank or build a bund.

Surely you didn't actually "fail"?
Just a non conformance to be rectified within 4 weeks?