- Location
- North Somerset.
Livestock markets provide competition for stock. I sell cull cows through Sedgemoor and regularly achieve top prices despite not being farm assured because I sell when there is a shortage in the summer.Livestock markets already deal with Red Tractor suppliers it will just mean to be fully farm assured a animal will need to be assured from birth but you do raise another point there should be a limit on movements too.
So we either have different levels of farm assurance or none at all?
Why should a animal born & finished on a single farm be the same price as a animal bought and sold several times but its last 90days just happened to be on a farm assured farm ?
This is where Red Tractor is Mickey Mouse , should be whole life and a premium for it.
Red Tractor and other farm assurances schemes are designed for the benefit of the supermarket cartel by the supermarket cartel and the sooner farmers refuse to pay in to these protection rackets the better.
To suggest anything other than farmers boycotting these
protection rackets and particulalry that scheme rules should be tightened is akin to not only putting your own head in the noose but also volunteering to jump of the scaffold.