home mixed ration

[Hobkin ground]

wanting to start home mix ration
what is requried as far as red tractor is concerned
and what about cross compliance in case of inspection???
please help?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

https://redtractorassurance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Home-Mixing-Record-.docx

 

[Hesstondriver]

step 1 , tell RT to fudge off

Step 2 notify your local authority you are home mixing , keep samples and reccord of your mix & crack on

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

For some reason the LA seems a lot more concerned about mixing than milling

Do you even need to tell anyone you are milling your own crops to feed on farm?

 

[Purbeck]

step 1 , tell RT to fudge off

Step 2 notify your local authority you are home mixing , keep samples and reccord of your mix & crack on

Yes, very important to notify your local authority!

Be warned, it will put you into Trading Standards highest risk category for inspection. But this should only be every few years (up to 10 year intervals I think) and is essentially to talk through your mixing process and look at storage of feeds, to make sure you don't inadvertently mix in anything you shouldn't be.

From my experience, it's nothing to worry about. I was advised last inspection that I shouldn't of had a drum of Ad-blue next to my cattle minerals. Which was fair enough really.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Is this new
I home mixed for 50 years , never kept any records ,
I can remember tipping bags into a Bamford roller mill to at the end mixing 50 tone at a time against a walk with a loading shovel

 

[Purbeck]

Is this new
I home mixed for 50 years , never kept any records ,
I can remember tipping bags into a Bamford roller mill to at the end mixing 50 tone at a time against a walk with a loading shovel

We had to register with Trading Standards sometime after the millennium. Possibly a response to BSE? But in all honesty I'm not sure.

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Yes, very important to notify your local authority!

Be warned, it will put you into Trading Standards highest risk category for inspection. But this should only be every few years (up to 10 year intervals I think) and is essentially to talk through your mixing process and look at storage of feeds, to make sure you don't inadvertently mix in anything you shouldn't be.

From my experience, it's nothing to worry about. I was advised last inspection that I shouldn't of had a drum of Ad-blue next to my cattle minerals. Which was fair enough really.

Easy mistake to make, I'm always giving my cattle adblue. Waste oil is another one, keep accidentally putting it in the troughs.

 

[Flatlander]

Easy mistake to make, I'm always giving my cattle adblue. Waste oil is another one, keep accidentally putting it in the troughs.

Tell the inspector it’s added to reduce emissions same as the tractor. Probably would have a clue if you were yanking his chain or legit.

 

[betweenthelines]

So if you feed out rolled barley and put some soya on top you're OK but if you mix soya and barley before you feed it out, you have to jump through a few hoops?

Also, isn't everyone who puts straights in a feed wagon "home mixing?"

 

[Hobkin ground]

Trading standards my local authority
what do they mean by Additives.?my feed stuffs
are barley/oats/ protine pellet,molllases / minerals and somtimes bi-carb?

 

[Hobkin ground]

Trading standards my local authority
what do they mean by Additives.?my feed stuffs
are barley/oats/ protine pellet,molllases / minerals and somtimes bi-carb.
all so is it trading standards or food standards agency i apply to?

 

[Wesley]

Trading standards my local authority
what do they mean by Additives.?my feed stuffs
are barley/oats/ protine pellet,molllases / minerals and somtimes bi-carb?

We were once told by a RT inspector it including things like minerals etc. He told us to say we didn’t mix them in as it saved paperwork. Unfortunately he retired a few years ago

 

[Purbeck]

We had to register with our local Trading Standards Office when we first bought a mixer wagon.

Top dressing or free access stuff is fine, no registration necessary.

As soon as it is mixed, i.e. using a mixer wagon to mix anything together, that's when you have to register. Or at least that's what we were advised back along anyway.

 

[tr250]

Easy mistake to make, I'm always giving my cattle adblue. Waste oil is another one, keep accidentally putting it in the troughs.

You laugh but it can happen this lot killed 55 cows after someone apparently left some urea in a water bowser

Inspectors give findings on dairy farm where 55 cows died

The cows were part of a herd of 700

www.leicestermercury.co.uk

 

[Old apprentice]

Haters left and loaded into a mixer wagon killed a lot of cattle as I have heard before on this subject.

 

[Blue.]

Registration as a home mixer isn’t going to stop an accident happening,there’s no need to register if you you don’t mix in minerals.

 

[vantage]

Registration as a home mixer isn’t going to stop an accident happening,there’s no need to register if you you don’t mix in minerals.

That’s what I remember.
A letter arrived this morning for a routine Farm and Feed hygiene inspection from the county council, I need to phone them tomorrow to say I only feed compounds and blends now.