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Meeting with AHDB about cereals assurance: What do you want us to say?
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<blockquote data-quote="Grass And Grain" data-source="post: 7836686" data-attributes="member: 23184"><p>On Friday 19th, a group of farmers from TFF are meeting AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds to discuss market access for our grain.</p><p></p><p>If you want us to raise any issues, please let us know in this thread, so we can take those points to AHDB.</p><p></p><p>We are of the opinion that our concerns have not been voiced by our industry representatives, and so we are representing ourselves.</p><p></p><p>We feel that AHDB's £250k annual payment and other assiciations with Red Tractor has contributed to the compromising of market access for levy payers who are not RT/SQC assured. </p><p></p><p>We now want AHDB to redress this situation, and develop market access for levy payers which increases our competitiveness versus imports, being mindful that imports do not have any requirement to be farm level assured to access many of our UK markets.</p><p></p><p>We are aware that NFU are closely associated with RT. We are aware that AHDB are closely asociated with RT. We are aware that AIC are closely associated with SQC. We have reservations about these associations.</p><p></p><p>We believe the fact that RT is the base standard for many grain markets reduces the ability for RT grain to achieve a price premium, yet causes non-assured grain to trade at a price penalty to imports. We feel that changing this structure can give UK producers better and lower cost market access, with the ability to add value to our grain.</p><p></p><p>Please add any comments you wish to be discussed and taken to our levy board.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grass And Grain, post: 7836686, member: 23184"] On Friday 19th, a group of farmers from TFF are meeting AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds to discuss market access for our grain. If you want us to raise any issues, please let us know in this thread, so we can take those points to AHDB. We are of the opinion that our concerns have not been voiced by our industry representatives, and so we are representing ourselves. We feel that AHDB's £250k annual payment and other assiciations with Red Tractor has contributed to the compromising of market access for levy payers who are not RT/SQC assured. We now want AHDB to redress this situation, and develop market access for levy payers which increases our competitiveness versus imports, being mindful that imports do not have any requirement to be farm level assured to access many of our UK markets. We are aware that NFU are closely associated with RT. We are aware that AHDB are closely asociated with RT. We are aware that AIC are closely associated with SQC. We have reservations about these associations. We believe the fact that RT is the base standard for many grain markets reduces the ability for RT grain to achieve a price premium, yet causes non-assured grain to trade at a price penalty to imports. We feel that changing this structure can give UK producers better and lower cost market access, with the ability to add value to our grain. Please add any comments you wish to be discussed and taken to our levy board. [/QUOTE]
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