Is my wheat Farm Assured
- Thread starter Tamar
- Start date
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
I use a farm assured neighbouring farmer to grow my wheat. He purchases all the chemicals and fertilizer and applies them.
Grown from FA approved seed.
Harvested wheat goes into approved central storage.
Does that make my wheat FA?
N.B. I am not FA as I realise what a scam it is!
Unless you pay your money and have an annual inspection, it matters not the quality of your produce if you don't have the sticker to go with it.
Doesnt it need a passport to go into central storage? Who's sticker goes on that?
' fraid not.
Got to pay the protection racket money, sit through a Spanish Inquisition style inspection, to obtain the little yellow stickers.....
Got to pay the protection racket money, sit through a Spanish Inquisition style inspection, to obtain the little yellow stickers.....
It's a farming-union-endorsed protection racket run by Dick Turpin-types.
- Location
- South Wales UK
Too me too you too me too you ????
this ! ^ NFU need funding, pay up or you're a shite farmer !
edited for accuracy !
- Location
- South Wales UK
Leave your neighbour have it ?
when I said similar Guy smith said I was being silly................ the similarities are there though, pay up and do as we say or we will close down your ability to trade
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
Exactly. Would be much simpler just to let the neighbour run the show and deal with the hassle.
@Tamar - is your non FA wheat stored separately from the FA wheat at central storage? Have you every compared the price you are paid to FA store users? I always thought central stores would require all customers to be FA.
bet it goes in as assured, probably with neighbour who does the works sticker on it, (not being critical of @Tamar as most would do so in practical terms) yet again proving the complete fallibility of the scheme
Tamar
Member
The scenario is that the wheat went from the combine into the store. A fortnight later the store asked me to fill out one of their forms which I ticked I wasn't FA.
So my few hundred tonnes of non FA grain is now mixed in with several thousand tonnes of assured grain.......although I expect they know where mine is in the pile when they resell mine as non FA !!
So my few hundred tonnes of non FA grain is now mixed in with several thousand tonnes of assured grain.......although I expect they know where mine is in the pile when they resell mine as non FA !!
- Location
- Minehead,Somerset
The neighbour may have registered you as a extra unit to his and his stickers will then cover you. I have two other farmers on my number and use my stickers on their grain. I do however do the spraying for them and grain comes to my farm buildings before uplift to where ever.
Tamar
Member
Why do you say that?
I have asked a genuine enquiry and wondered if there was a retrospective way of selling grain having not paid for the sticker ?
All FA rules have been followed by the Farmer who was contracted in. As far as I am aware the fields that grow the crop are not inspected.......yet !
I don't feel that I am cheating the system by using this grey area. The grain was never stored in my yard, so effectively the only difference is that the merchants have to write the cheque out to someone different than who's name appears on the sticker.
I'm surprised this is allowed, as there's a long list of other compliances. Fertiliser records, waste disposal to name two, which should be the responsibility of the grower. Good luck to you though as I've always said it's a big con.