EA job advert in FW

JP1

Member
Livestock Farmer
Agriculture Regulatory Inspection Officers

Salary range - £28,785 to £34,208


Do you have a good knowledge of agriculture or other regulation in England and want to improve our natural environment? Would you like to be at the forefront of agricultural change? This is an exciting opportunity as we are recruiting a number of new officers across England to undertake regulatory inspections of farms.

We are looking for dynamic individuals ideally with experience and understanding of agriculture, or other regulatory activity, to work with farmers to increase their levels of compliance with existing environmental regulations. This will help farmers safeguard and improve the environment and ensure they are in a robust position to secure future funding through the Environmental Land Management Schemes.

This is a specialist role where you will be required to:

• Carry out targeted farm visits

• Engage with farmers to influence them to change their practice, which may involve difficult conversations

• Collect and report on data and findings

• Be willing to undertake regulatory enforcement action, prosecutions and the serving of notices, when needed







Didn't think it read that bad tbh
 

Campani

Member
Reads fine to me. Having had previous experience with ag inspection officers who have little or no experience with agriculture, I think it's refreshing they are advertising in Farmers weekly.
Hopefully, they can get candidates that understand the challenges faced by farmers so they can be a bit more pragmatic with enforcing regulations. I also hope to win the lottery, not sure which is more likely.
 

primmiemoo

Member
Location
Devon
Believe it or not, there are still farmers (and former farmers in "alternative land use") who do need to be on the receiving end of difficult conversations - and who are notorious for needing to be told "Who's army" and which bits of shalt and shalt not are essential to maintain the environment 🙄 .

Good luck to the successful candidate for the job.
 

JP1

Member
Livestock Farmer
Believe it or not, there are still farmers (and former farmers in "alternative land use") who do need to be on the receiving end of difficult conversations - and who are notorious for needing to be told "Who's army" and which bits of shalt and shalt not are essential to maintain the environment 🙄 .

Good luck to the successful candidate for the job.
Diplomats in other vocations would be on 10 x that salary to get the necessary skillset!
 

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
It'll be an even more thankless job than my old one had become I suspect. :(

Whether anyone welcomes an EA farm inspector onto the farm will largely depend how pragmatic they are allowed to be.

It could be a great job if the successful candidates are allowed to foster a culture of partnership in meeting standards and only resort to enforcement as a last resort. If handled really well they would find farmers calling them for advice on how to comply with the rules.

Time will tell.
 

Goweresque

Member
Location
North Wilts
Believe it or not, there are still farmers (and former farmers in "alternative land use") who do need to be on the receiving end of difficult conversations - and who are notorious for needing to be told "Who's army" and which bits of shalt and shalt not are essential to maintain the environment 🙄 .

I wonder if any of these new inspectors will venture on the local 'traveller' encampments where the sewage disposal methods are, how shall I put this, somewhat medieval?

I rather think those locations will be off limits for 'difficult conversations' for some unexplained reason.................... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
I wonder if any of these new inspectors will venture on the local 'traveller' encampments where the sewage disposal methods are, how shall I put this, somewhat medieval?

I rather think those locations will be off limits for 'difficult conversations' for some unexplained reason.................... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Why would they if they are being employed as agriculture inspectors?

The EA "Land and Water" enforcement staff (what we used to call "Pollution Officers") are the ones for that issue and have been unable to cope with the sheer number of failing small septic tanks and cesspits for decades.
 

robs1

Member
I wonder if any of these new inspectors will venture on the local 'traveller' encampments where the sewage disposal methods are, how shall I put this, somewhat medieval?

I rather think those locations will be off limits for 'difficult conversations' for some unexplained reason.................... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
A lady I rent some ground from called them out to local pikey camp as there septic tank overflow was running over some rough ground she owns, two EA officers turned up and said " it doesnt really look like septic discharge" the lady said well take a sample and test it, they said they had been told not to by their boss, out of sight out of mind
 

nelly55

Member
Location
Yorkshire
I will be always polite to anyone just doing their job,but the EA has to accept there are serious issues with flooding,river management etc.Let’s start with sewage works discharging into rivers ,then the rivers flooding farm land.Before long we will have that many inspections it won’t matter because we won’t have time to farm.Yes farming like any industry needs controls but too many pulling in all directions is no good for anyone.
 

Cowmansam

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Shropshire
A lady I rent some ground from called them out to local pikey camp as there septic tank overflow was running over some rough ground she owns, two EA officers turned up and said " it doesnt really look like septic discharge" the lady said well take a sample and test it, they said they had been told not to by their boss, out of sight out of mind
Near Nottingham ?
 

Cowmansam

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Shropshire
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This was raw sewage going into the river Severn in bewdley rang the e a said they send someone out right away well I was there all day and nobody came
 

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