Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
Onion harvester?
Had this come through by email this morning. Some excellent questions being asked.
Anyone else who has it I suggest it would be well worth filling in.
£7 reason enoughGive us some info, the old man got this survey through the email today.
His first reaction was to fudge em and not fill it in.
Can you give us some reasons WHY we should fill it in and what the questions are. Is it worth filling in ? Otherwise a lot of people are probably not going to bother. RT is a bad name here and a lot of people are sick of it.
Because if you don’t reply they’ll think you love the status quo!Give us some info, the old man got this survey through the email today.
His first reaction was to fudge em and not fill it in.
Can you give us some reasons WHY we should fill it in and what the questions are. Is it worth filling in ? Otherwise a lot of people are probably not going to bother. RT is a bad name here and a lot of people are sick of it.
fill it in , RT wont like my replies , more the better , wont take many mins, and they will give you £7 (a pint at glasto)Give us some info, the old man got this survey through the email today.
His first reaction was to fudge em and not fill it in.
Can you give us some reasons WHY we should fill it in and what the questions are. Is it worth filling in ? Otherwise a lot of people are probably not going to bother. RT is a bad name here and a lot of people are sick of it.
So many words have been written about RT ,but here a few more for what it is worth.In many cases if you do something that costs you money for no return it is seen as a bad business decision and you cease to do it to protect your business. Unfortunately many of us cannot trade efficiently without RT assurance, (I cannot deliver my sugar beet crop to British Sugar without it) and outlets to the grain trade are limited also if not 'assured'. Same old story is that total solidarity amongst farmers is lacking and too many just shrug their shoulders and go along under protest with the scheme. Some even think it is marvellous and welcome it particularly if you are on the board of directors etc.Does anyone actually like Red Tractor, or do 95% of us hate it?
I don't mind red tractor hardly know I do it, compared to Organic Certification it's a doddle , quite happy with it just needs to be tougher and less Mickey mouse , whole life or nothing . Making a fat animal suddenly farm assured in its last 90 days is ridiculous .Does anyone actually like Red Tractor, or do 95% of us hate it?
Whole life would mean the supermarket cartel can do away with livestock markets and therefore competition for cattle and sheep, at the stroke of a pen in order to achieve their business aim of integrated supply chains where they dictate the price they will pay to the producer.I don't mind red tractor hardly know I do it, compared to Organic Certification it's a doddle , quite happy with it just needs to be tougher and less Mickey mouse , whole life or nothing . Making a fat animal suddenly farm assured in its last 90 days is ridiculous .
If we didn't have Red Tractor would we have more inspections ?
I'd prefer one inspection that covers everything farm standards/ Rpa / health & safety / Supermarket and for me Organic all at the same time rather than multiple inspections that quite often duplicate each other.
be the worse thing for our industry and yet again farmers are their own worse enemyWhole life would mean the supermarket cartel can do away with livestock markets and therefore competition for cattle and sheep, at the stroke of a pen in order to achieve their business aim of integrated supply chains.
Be careful of what you wish for. Integrated supply chains have not done the pig or poultry job any favours.
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.Whole life would mean the supermarket cartel can do away with livestock markets and therefore competition for cattle and sheep, at the stroke of a pen in order to achieve their business aim of integrated supply chains where they dictate the price they will pay to the producer.
Be careful of what you wish for. Integrated supply chains have not done the pig or poultry job any favours.