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There used to be a premium for OSR grown under the LEAF Marque protocols. Is there any still available?
Are they paying a premium for being assured ? Looks fairly time consuming!There used to be one from Helmans Mayonnaise via ADM. I don’t know if any schemes still exist. If you want to supply Quaker with oats in 2022, you will need to be Leaf Marque.
The ADM hellmans mayonnaise scheme was quite a good one while it lasted. From memory I think it was £15/t bonus for not really doing a lot extra. We had to fill in more paperwork and produce lots of reports for sustainability of our business which were tedious but actually I think helped us understand a few things better. The audit was bolted onto the red tractor one and was a bit more onerous. But when at the time we were growing 300t of osr it was worth doing. I think it was dropped in the end because Hellmans weren't seeing any benefit from the Leaf marque selling more mayo. We left leaf the following year.
The Quaker contract is currently one of the best that I’ve seen, but they have gradually kept adding more and more conditions and eroding the premiums with these conditions. There is at least one TFF member who has said that they will not play the game anymore, so it will be interesting to see how this develops. Hopefully the LEAF audit will bring up some good questions that help bring the farm business on. I’m looking at sustainability in terms of Natural Capital anyway, so it’s a good exercise.Are they paying a premium for being assured ? Looks fairly time consuming!
The Quaker contract is currently one of the best that I’ve seen, but they have gradually kept adding more and more conditions and eroding the premiums with these conditions. There is at least one TFF member who has said that they will not play the game anymore, so it will be interesting to see how this develops. Hopefully the LEAF audit will bring up some good questions that help bring the farm business on. I’m looking at sustainability in terms of Natural Capital anyway, so it’s a good exercise.
The customer is always right, or something like that!