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NFU Conference – Dynamic vision for a market that rewards
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<blockquote data-quote="CPM RSS" data-source="post: 7482959" data-attributes="member: 81424"><p><img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/CPM.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Written by cpm</p><p></p><p>Download PDF At last month’s virtual NFU conference, Britain’s leaders presented their plans for farming, but how should policy progress? CPM talks to Minette Batters. If the market wants farmers to raise standards, it has to reward them for doing so. By Tom Allen-Stevens Arable farmers should be given a dynamic set of standards under Red Tractor Assurance that both eliminates hypocrisy in the grain trade and allows the market to reward farmers who choose to follow additional standards. That’s the view of NFU president Minette Batters who spoke with CPM, following the 2021 NFU conference, about the current conflict over Red Tractor, import standards and how the NFU’s relationship with Government is evolving. “Insisting that farmers can’t use temporary grain stores after 31 Oct when there is no visibility nor control on how imported grain is handled. Insisting on disproportionate worker-welfare standards when it’s impossible to assure any form of employee safeguarding for grain produced in countries that have a far lower legal baseline than in the UK. These are examples of the current hypocrisy in the grain trade,” she said. Minette would like to see Red Tractor represent what she calls “a business-to-business communicator”, that allows parts of…</p><p>The post <a href="http://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk/2021/03/24/nfu-conference-dynamic-vision-for-a-market-that-rewards/" target="_blank">NFU Conference – Dynamic vision for a market that rewards</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk" target="_blank">cpm magazine</a>.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk/2021/03/24/nfu-conference-dynamic-vision-for-a-market-that-rewards/" target="_blank">Continue reading on CPM website...</a></p><p></p><p>If you are enjoying what you read then why not considering subscribing:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk/subscribe/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/SubscribeButton.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CPM RSS, post: 7482959, member: 81424"] [img]https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/CPM.jpg[/img] Written by cpm Download PDF At last month’s virtual NFU conference, Britain’s leaders presented their plans for farming, but how should policy progress? CPM talks to Minette Batters. If the market wants farmers to raise standards, it has to reward them for doing so. By Tom Allen-Stevens Arable farmers should be given a dynamic set of standards under Red Tractor Assurance that both eliminates hypocrisy in the grain trade and allows the market to reward farmers who choose to follow additional standards. That’s the view of NFU president Minette Batters who spoke with CPM, following the 2021 NFU conference, about the current conflict over Red Tractor, import standards and how the NFU’s relationship with Government is evolving. “Insisting that farmers can’t use temporary grain stores after 31 Oct when there is no visibility nor control on how imported grain is handled. Insisting on disproportionate worker-welfare standards when it’s impossible to assure any form of employee safeguarding for grain produced in countries that have a far lower legal baseline than in the UK. These are examples of the current hypocrisy in the grain trade,” she said. Minette would like to see Red Tractor represent what she calls “a business-to-business communicator”, that allows parts of… The post [URL='http://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk/2021/03/24/nfu-conference-dynamic-vision-for-a-market-that-rewards/']NFU Conference – Dynamic vision for a market that rewards[/URL] appeared first on [URL='http://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk']cpm magazine[/URL]. [url="http://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk/2021/03/24/nfu-conference-dynamic-vision-for-a-market-that-rewards/"]Continue reading on CPM website...[/url] If you are enjoying what you read then why not considering subscribing: [url="http://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk/subscribe/"][IMG]https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/SubscribeButton.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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