Show them a ticket for some bought in feed ,
No Assured Wheat
- Thread starter db9go
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d williams
Member
Why??
Diversion
d williams
Member
There’s no need but I know what your saying
There is a need , if you're FA beef you have to feed FA feed .
davidroberts30
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
No you dont what about all the waste veg and non assured grain
@Daniel might help he does eggs rather than meat
d williams
Member
Not sure you have to plenty don’t
Same here.
- Location
- Mid Norfolk
We're RT beef but not cereals. We can feed barley and oats grown on our farm to our cattle, but any cereals bought in must be assured. Any supplementary feeds must be from an assured source - FEMAS, TASCC, etc.
We rejected a load of FA barley last year that was infested with wild oats and had a dispute with Trident over some bagged beet shreds in which we found some keys and a welding rod!
It all counts for NOWT.
We rejected a load of FA barley last year that was infested with wild oats and had a dispute with Trident over some bagged beet shreds in which we found some keys and a welding rod!
It all counts for NOWT.
warksfarmer
Member
Got quoted £208/t for none assured group 1 on Wednesday last week. That’s basically a feed price so it would be collected from me none assured then miraculously in transport be turned into assured and the merchant would make an extra £17/t for applying their own sticker or putting into a much bigger pile of assured and loose it in the mix.
Daniel
Member
- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Yeah but the Lion Code demand that our wheat that we feed to the hens has to be assured, so we have no option but to assure our wheat. If I wanted to be naughty I could 'lose' a few loads of bought in non assured wheat I suppose, but if caught I'd be in trouble.
Price wise it's a conundrum, I just charge the ahdb ex farm price to the poultry enterprise for my wheat as it's milled.
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- Location
- Yorks
If you're TASCC merchant, for £40 you can buy 1,000 stickers.
29k tonnes for £40!
Fill your boots merchants and shippers.
29k tonnes for £40!
Fill your boots merchants and shippers.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
No wonder they love the scheme. That'll pay for a fair few junkets / hospitality.
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
That’s just over a tenth of a penny per tonne.
Even taking a nominal £5/t margin for assured, it equates to a 3600 times uplift!
4 pence per lorry load
£145 “premium”
Yet every arable farmer in the UK pays way more than the £40 just in membership of Red Tractor!
- Location
- Northumberland
You don't have to have own, or direct from another farmer, grain to be assured for beef/lamb. Tell any inspector to produce the requirement if they think different.
Frontier taking legal quality from me, no knock currently, -£2 for Nov.
Frontier taking legal quality from me, no knock currently, -£2 for Nov.
And why does a merchant need stickers they don't produce the crop this is the final straw we should tell red tractor where to put there stickers
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Exactly. When they are short, they don't care about it a jot.