Farm assurance

[jerseycowsman]

Having just had the latest novel from red tractor drop through the letterbox, I am disgusted and insulted as to how it’s got to this ridiculous level of jobsworthness!
We are currently milking 308 cows, none are lame, we have a bactoscan of 25 and cell count below 100. The parlour is clean, the farm is tidy and the medicine book up to date. I don’t mind an inspector coming and checking on that.
But can someone tell why we need this 150 pages of utter sh!t?

 

[pappuller]

Having just had the latest novel from red tractor drop through the letterbox, I am disgusted and insulted as to how it’s got to this ridiculous level of jobsworthness!
We are currently milking 308 cows, none are lame, we have a bactoscan of 25 and cell count below 100. The parlour is clean, the farm is tidy and the medicine book up to date. I don’t mind an inspector coming and checking on that.
But can someone tell why we need this 150 pages of utter sh!t?

Because we all roll over and lube up

 

[milkloss]

ya. Lack...of...balls

 

[An Gof]

Having just had the latest novel from red tractor drop through the letterbox, I am disgusted and insulted as to how it’s got to this ridiculous level of jobsworthness!
We are currently milking 308 cows, none are lame, we have a bactoscan of 25 and cell count below 100. The parlour is clean, the farm is tidy and the medicine book up to date. I don’t mind an inspector coming and checking on that.
But can someone tell why we need this 150 pages of utter sh!t?

We all feel your pain,

 

[Ducati899]

Having just had the latest novel from red tractor drop through the letterbox, I am disgusted and insulted as to how it’s got to this ridiculous level of jobsworthness!
We are currently milking 308 cows, none are lame, we have a bactoscan of 25 and cell count below 100. The parlour is clean, the farm is tidy and the medicine book up to date. I don’t mind an inspector coming and checking on that.
But can someone tell why we need this 150 pages of utter sh!t?

Couple years ago all they could find wrong here was the fact that father hauled 99% of the livestock we move and doesn’t own a mobile phone! They said everyone has a mobile phone and you should have one

 

[betweenthelines]

Having seen a programme on C5 last night about how supermarkets use fake farm names on their products to disguise ( I would say mislead) shoppers about where the stuff comes from, should we be insisting that these fakes are FA audited!

Seriously though, it's clear from the comments on that programme that the general public cares more about a fake farm name on the packet than any real farm audits

 

[upnortheast]

Selling bottled milk for 16 years now, not once in that time have customers asked about F.A

 

[Jdunn55]

Having just had the latest novel from red tractor drop through the letterbox, I am disgusted and insulted as to how it’s got to this ridiculous level of jobsworthness!
We are currently milking 308 cows, none are lame, we have a bactoscan of 25 and cell count below 100. The parlour is clean, the farm is tidy and the medicine book up to date. I don’t mind an inspector coming and checking on that.
But can someone tell why we need this 150 pages of utter sh!t?

This is my favourite part, they don't value us they may value the cheque but that doesn't mean they value us

 

[Bald Rick]

Because we all roll over and lube up

You speak for yourself ........ some of us have to take it dry

 

[Bald Rick]

Having seen a programme on C5 last night about how supermarkets use fake farm names on their products to disguise ( I would say mislead) shoppers about where the stuff comes from, should we be insisting that these fakes are FA audited!

Seriously though, it's clear from the comments on that programme that the general public cares more about a fake farm name on the packet than any real farm audits

Fake names are common throughout retail though.

Look at TK Maxx. Most of the stuff they punt out are sown in sweatshops but given exotic names.
Never forgotten the experience of buying "Tokyo Laundry" undercrackers .......... the eyes are still watering to this day

 

[tullah]

We are just fodder to them but wait a few months and the few odd members still with them will be worthless as their plush office goes on the market while the directors busy themselves writing their cvs for their next fraudulent career.

 

[Jdunn55]

We are just fodder to them but wait a few months and the few odd members still with them will be worthless as their plush office goes on the market while the directors busy themselves writing their cvs for their next fraudulent career.

'My previous experience includes pushing paper, creating more paper work and I have a particularly extraordinary ability to not only create new job roles and titles but also promote myself to said job role for yet more money!'

 

[betweenthelines]

Fake names are common throughout retail though.

Look at TK Maxx. Most of the stuff they punt out are sown in sweatshops but given exotic names.
Never forgotten the experience of buying "Tokyo Laundry" undercrackers .......... the eyes are still watering to this day

But the shoppers interviewed clearly had no idea about F A schemes like Red Tractor-they are far more influenced by a wrapper with a twee name like "Manor Farm" on it!. So if the customer doesn't give a F about RT, what's the friggin point of it?

PS, Could you please keep all info on your undergarments on a strictly need-to-know basis. And I don't!

 

[Bald Rick]

But the shoppers interviewed clearly had no idea about F A schemes like Red Tractor-they are far more influenced by a wrapper with a twee name like "Manor Farm" on it!. So if the customer doesn't give a F about RT, what's the friggin point of it?

PS, Could you please keep all info on your undergarments on a strictly need-to-know basis. And I don't!

Knowledge is power

 

[buffalo_soldier]

See, your first mistake is opening any correspondence from them

 

[Tarw Coch]

Couple years ago all they could find wrong here was the fact that father hauled 99% of the livestock we move and doesn’t own a mobile phone! They said everyone has a mobile phone and you should have one

They should have been challenged on exactly which RT standard not owning a mobile phone was in contravention of, I don’t know, can’t be arsed to look but I’ll bet it isn’t mentioned in their rule book.

 

[Ducati899]

They should have been challenged on exactly which RT standard not owning a mobile phone was in contravention of, I don’t know, can’t be arsed to look but I’ll bet it isn’t mentioned in their rule book.

He just said he was hauling livestock the length of the country long before mobiles and got by then

 

[Tarw Coch]

He just said he was hauling livestock the length of the country long before mobiles and got by then

I doubt wether he got by by claiming years of experience, that doesn’t seem to be good enough for other things, he got by because the assessor was being an arse and knew it, and if you were prepared to stand and argue the point there was no rule being broken that he could show

 

[NoParticularPattern]

Tell you what I want to know having read the new standards- all the bits that say “new” “upgraded” “revised” etc next to them- do they ever say what it used to be or give a reason why they needed to add it? “Our consultation highlighted……” isn’t really a reason is it? I need to know what I need to add to what we already do for that standard so that we meet it, and you can be absolutely certain that I’m not sitting there with current and previous copies of the standards (plus the altered versions in between) to compare and contrast! Not least because it feels slightly like that’s not my job- if you’re going to pay yourselves a bloody fortune just to say “because consumers say so” then you could at least make things slightly more clear than your average peat bog.

 

[gerr]

And you still sign up to them. I would be too embarrassed to admit to being conned annually. Talk about the tail wagging the dog!

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