KS Coles fleet and packhouse sale

Sid

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Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
20 tractors 9 Fendts 10 JDs 2 Kubotas
SP sprayer
SP Swede harvester
20 trailers
Cultivation equipment
Packhouse equipment over 600 lots.

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Huge change in policy.
 

Jerry

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Was only local Swede growing still going. Cut throat dealing with supermarkets and travelling further afield to find clean swede ground would be factors.

There’s one other local. They supply ginsters with all their swede.

They are probably going to up area a little to take some of the slack but not finally decided yet. They will be looking at some of the warehouse equipment I think.

But yes they have to travel to get decent red ground
 

Willjh

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Mixed Farmer
There’s one other local. They supply ginsters with all their swede.

They are probably going to up area a little to take some of the slack but not finally decided yet. They will be looking at some of the warehouse equipment I think.

But yes they have to travel to get decent red ground
Clarkes are going just as far as Coles though, they come all they way up to us in North Devon to grow parsnips and a few swedes!

According to a local farmer near us who grew some swedes for Coles it came down to not being able to agree on a price after the supermarket turned around and demanded it cheaper, so rather than bowing to pressure they just decided to fold and focus on other areas.
 

Chae1

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
Clarkes are going just as far as Coles though, they come all they way up to us in North Devon to grow parsnips and a few swedes!

According to a local farmer near us who grew some swedes for Coles it came down to not being able to agree on a price after the supermarket turned around and demanded it cheaper, so rather than bowing to pressure they just decided to fold and focus on other areas.
Good for them for sticking up for themselves and telling supermarkets to stuff it.
 
So have KS Coles got crop in the ground? If so what will happen to it, with equipment sold?

Swede expensive this year. But thanks to pesticide bans now an expensive & very unreliable crop to grow. Main problem 15 years ago key insecticides withdrawn so crops grown under mesh which leads to weed control headaches which get worse & worse. (sorry to swede growers post to those who know little of the crop)
 
I believe nothing drilled this spring.


So that is why swedes so expensive then. We grow our own but early season about a month ago £640 a ton (£8 per 12.5kg net bought in small amounts of course)

We have sometimes bought there peas & beans from Sheffield wholesale market. Just brousing the web, they used to grow !,000 acre of peas, no wonder they needed 300 staff.

 
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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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