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Farmers Weekly : Non-assured growers should get access to feed mills, says Red Tractor
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<blockquote data-quote="Grass And Grain" data-source="post: 7855570" data-attributes="member: 23184"><p>Current Gatekeeper (GK) schemes for imports revolve around laboratory testing, and they're designed to work for large shipments. </p><p></p><p>Imports are grown outside of our UK legislative framework, with pesticides not licensed in the UK. Therefore lab testing is sensible.</p><p></p><p>Our grain is grown WITHIN the UK legislative framework, only with pesticides licensed in the UK.</p><p></p><p>Therefore we do not need to do laboratory testing (same reason that Rt Grain does not need lab testing) to access markets. We have the UK risk based system of ensuring grain is within max pesticide residue and other parameters.</p><p></p><p>We understand purchasers might want some assurance that grain has been grown to good standards. We need a system which is appropriate for a 29t load, not a 29,000 tonne shipment.</p><p></p><p>We believe an AHDB digital assured passport system can provide a good level of food safety assurance to our customers.</p><p></p><p>A system like this can deal with multiple tiers. Level 1 might be satisfactory for many mills. Some mills may prefer level 2.</p><p></p><p>This provides an opportunity for a price premium, depending on the assurance level. The premium will be found by the free marketplace, and will be determined by supply and demand.</p><p></p><p>Farmers and mills will be free to choose which standard they wish to use.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grass And Grain, post: 7855570, member: 23184"] Current Gatekeeper (GK) schemes for imports revolve around laboratory testing, and they're designed to work for large shipments. Imports are grown outside of our UK legislative framework, with pesticides not licensed in the UK. Therefore lab testing is sensible. Our grain is grown WITHIN the UK legislative framework, only with pesticides licensed in the UK. Therefore we do not need to do laboratory testing (same reason that Rt Grain does not need lab testing) to access markets. We have the UK risk based system of ensuring grain is within max pesticide residue and other parameters. We understand purchasers might want some assurance that grain has been grown to good standards. We need a system which is appropriate for a 29t load, not a 29,000 tonne shipment. We believe an AHDB digital assured passport system can provide a good level of food safety assurance to our customers. A system like this can deal with multiple tiers. Level 1 might be satisfactory for many mills. Some mills may prefer level 2. This provides an opportunity for a price premium, depending on the assurance level. The premium will be found by the free marketplace, and will be determined by supply and demand. Farmers and mills will be free to choose which standard they wish to use. [/QUOTE]
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