Grain sales

[DrWazzock]

I wish people would check their bucket, I got a load of barley last year when it was tipped two dead ewes came out with it

Paperwork would be right though! Anybody who has any sense checks their bucket before each load. What they don’t always have time to do is go into the office, pull out the file and record the date and time of the check while the lorry driver is sat waiting in the yard wondering if he’s going to miss his delivery slot. Good working practices come about by common sense and keeping your wits about you, not by wading through reams of procedure and recording. It’s not just bucket cleanliness either. You check the state of the loader, security of attachment, clean windows, condition of tyres. We do it out of common sense and because it’s part of telehandler training. If we are forced to write everything down we could take as long on the paperwork as on the loading itself, but no doubt somebody would think it a good idea who never had to actually make a living at the job.

 

[fieldfarmer]

I'm sorry to say I will not load a lorry if I don't know the driver with out looking in it first as it says to do on the paper work. Many are not clean as there papers say. worst would be a foreign lorry going home taking a load of linseed abroad that had 300 + kgs of maize left in it due to not being able to open his tailboard at his tip site. But it doesn't matter because his paper work was all correct.

 

[tullah]

I'd love to see a debate about this where the public could see both sides.
Those defending RT would be shot to pieces and look fools as they should do.
Is there anyway we can bring this on. GB news could be persuaded. Challenge RT to argue their case.
They would run a mile.

 

[kiwi pom]

Do you need to be assured to load a boat and export your crop?

 

[Barleymow]

Do you need to be assured to load a boat and export your crop?

Non assured round here would go on a boat ,only good for export local merchants would say

 

[MrNoo]

I don't think its right that imports become RT grain. Its more that grain doesn't need to RT grain to be sold to RT farms as feed or milling to become RT livestock assured. But apparently to sell it to any mill in the UK it needs to be RT.

But the rest I totally agree with

So German milling wheat coming in straight to our mills, is this not mixed with our RT assured wheat and then sold as RT produce?? Trouble is that no one really knows do they? The grain trade as well as many other input trades are lets just say, not exactly transparent are they. The Fert market is no better and the NFU just sit there doing sweet FA

 

[DrWazzock]

Do you need to be assured to load a boat and export your crop?

Yes, to most destinations. I have asked my merchant.

 

[DrWazzock]

I'm sorry to say I will not load a lorry if I don't know the driver with out looking in it first as it says to do on the paper work. Many are not clean as there papers say. worst would be a foreign lorry going home taking a load of linseed abroad that had 300 + kgs of maize left in it due to not being able to open his tailboard at his tip site. But it doesn't matter because his paper work was all correct.

30 years ago it wasn’t unusual to have to sweep a hundredweight of nutty slack out the back before loading.
But did we need to fill a form in to say we’d sorted it out? Not really.

 

[farmerm]

Only a matter of time before we have to keep a record of each time we keep a record