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<blockquote data-quote="Grass And Grain" data-source="post: 8176928" data-attributes="member: 23184"><p>Actually [USER=95]@Against_the_grain[/USER] , being fair, RT does give access to all markets. I'd say they've worked to cut off markets for non-assured, and made themselves indispensable, but let's overlook that for now...</p><p></p><p>There are some farmers who only grow feed grains. If they want to sell to a feed mill, then they've to still jump through every RT hoop, same as a milling wheat grower.</p><p></p><p>I think there's a place for 2 different standards. Boggy basic and bells and whistles, then the farmer can choose and the mill can choose. Think this is a reasonable way to go, and gives some sort of closer equivalence to imports. Maybe someone can choose to be boggy basic, bit if they want, could upgrade to bells and whistles by uploading a few more documents and having those remotely checked. £30 extra, Bob's your uncle.</p><p></p><p>What I'd like to see, is if the mill wants bells and whistles, the farmer could sell as either boggy basic or bells and whistles, and bells and whistles comes with a price premium, but the grain is only bells and whistles if the farmers signs it off as meeting the conformity spec. That is, yes it's passed the audit 6 months ago, but the farmer warrants that 6 months on the facilities/checks/standards have continued to be met from the audit to current date. This is somewhat different to just saying it's got a sticker from an audit 6 months ago, and should command a price premium. Otherwise purchaser just gets sticker to say farm passed audit 6 months ago, so it could well be null and void.</p><p></p><p>I think it might be possible?</p><p></p><p>It might then be possible for farmers to like assurance?</p><p></p><p>Would this work?</p><p></p><p>(A) Boggy basic.</p><p>(B) Bells and whistles (historic audit).</p><p>(C) Bells and whistles (signature of up to date conformity).</p><p></p><p>Buyer must pay a premium to get (C).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grass And Grain, post: 8176928, member: 23184"] Actually [USER=95]@Against_the_grain[/USER] , being fair, RT does give access to all markets. I'd say they've worked to cut off markets for non-assured, and made themselves indispensable, but let's overlook that for now... There are some farmers who only grow feed grains. If they want to sell to a feed mill, then they've to still jump through every RT hoop, same as a milling wheat grower. I think there's a place for 2 different standards. Boggy basic and bells and whistles, then the farmer can choose and the mill can choose. Think this is a reasonable way to go, and gives some sort of closer equivalence to imports. Maybe someone can choose to be boggy basic, bit if they want, could upgrade to bells and whistles by uploading a few more documents and having those remotely checked. £30 extra, Bob's your uncle. What I'd like to see, is if the mill wants bells and whistles, the farmer could sell as either boggy basic or bells and whistles, and bells and whistles comes with a price premium, but the grain is only bells and whistles if the farmers signs it off as meeting the conformity spec. That is, yes it's passed the audit 6 months ago, but the farmer warrants that 6 months on the facilities/checks/standards have continued to be met from the audit to current date. This is somewhat different to just saying it's got a sticker from an audit 6 months ago, and should command a price premium. Otherwise purchaser just gets sticker to say farm passed audit 6 months ago, so it could well be null and void. I think it might be possible? It might then be possible for farmers to like assurance? Would this work? (A) Boggy basic. (B) Bells and whistles (historic audit). (C) Bells and whistles (signature of up to date conformity). Buyer must pay a premium to get (C). [/QUOTE]
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