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kiwi pom

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Location
canterbury NZ
I think audits are going to become much more widely used by supermarkets, retailers and processors. Green and sustainable being two new ones. Dairy, veg, pigs, poultry all getting more and more hoops to jump through.
You probably don't need much for a bit of feed grain, but everything else?....
 

Grass And Grain

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Yorks
Min tilled some stewardship mixes in, probably plough most the cereal land, hope to soon be free from shackles of SAI Global and RT.

Just goes to show what a massive industry the assurance industry is. Leaches, making up schemes, then sell that concept to the buyers, who say great we want that because it won't cost us anything, farmer has to pay the protection money, assurance company execs drive about in Range Rovers off our backs.

Well they're going to have to justify their existence publicly in the FW now.
 
Min tilled some stewardship mixes in, probably plough most the cereal land, hope to soon be free from shackles of SAI Global and RT.

Just goes to show what a massive industry the assurance industry is. Leaches, making up schemes, then sell that concept to the buyers, who say great we want that because it won't cost us anything, farmer has to pay the protection money, assurance company execs drive about in Range Rovers off our backs.

Well they're going to have to justify their existence publicly in the FW now.


NFU similar, only really useful as an insurance company IMHO.

In truth RT is a monopoly facilitated by HMG.

Hopefully HMG will keep out of it but I doubt it. Lots of regulation is designed specifically to make a few people a lot of money.
 

Grass And Grain

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Yorks
NFU similar, only really useful as an insurance company IMHO.

In truth RT is a monopoly facilitated by HMG.

Hopefully HMG will keep out of it but I doubt it. Lots of regulation is designed specifically to make a few people a lot of money.
All about the money.

Don't they realise all these things are extra nails in the coffin of small farmers, who are the backbone of rural communities and economies, and often farm in an environmentally sensitive manner, with pride and care being taken of our land and the ecosystems they support. Rant over!

Still same thought. All about trapping businesses into assurance, and extracting the cash out of us.

Meanwhile, government get inspections done for free, and farmers are footing the bill.
 

copse

Member
Mixed Farmer
3.17am @copse you late to bed, or early up?

I'm early up. Couldn't sleep, letters to write about RT, and beans to harvest before pods go brittle.blo
3.17am @copse you late to bed, or early up?

I'm early up. Couldn't sleep, letters to write about RT, and beans to harvest before pods go brittle.
Bloody daddy long legs woke one of the kids up and couldn’t get back to sleep!
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive offer for farmers published

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Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer from July will give the sector a clear path forward and boost farm business resilience.

From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and The Rt Hon Sir Mark Spencer MP Published21 May 2024

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Full details of the expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer available to farmers from July have been published by the...
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