- Location
- North Somerset.
No attempt by @Simon Bainbridge to counter my argument about Farm Assurance being a market manipulation tool for the benefit of the buyers and the long term detriment of the Farmer in the price the producer receives. To me that says it all.The history of Farmers losing control over their ability to obtain a fair price for their products shows that buyers will manipulate their pricing to suck farmers in. I understand that Goodman in Ireland did this and now all prime cattle go deadweight because the extra few pence he offered per kilo was enough for him to take enough trade away from the live weight sales to destroy them. Now he controls the price of beef because he has destroyed the competition for stock that the live markets provided.
The same applies to Red Tractor as manipulated by the Supermarkets. Having signed up to Farm Assurance, you have no say over what conditions are imposed on you by that scheme, you become a puppet dancing to their tune and you pay for the privelidge!
When Red Tractor, at the behest of their Supermarket masters, dictate that no assured animal can go through a market, the buyers have done away with the competition for our product that keeps our prices up.
The Supermarket business model is to dictate to their suppliers what they will pay for the product. In the livestock markets they have to compete for our product and they don't like that and they seek to control the supply chain through Red Tractor.
Anyone who believes different please feel free to explain to me how Farmers can have any infuence over what I believe will happen other than by refusing to give in to this FA blackmail.
This scheme has nothing to do with Food Safety and everything to do with market control.
Most farmers would not support any further government interference in their businesses which they would regard as the imposition of communism yet some will advocate signing up for FA because they see an extra few pence in the job.
Unless you are a one step thinker, you will see that the plan behind whole life farm assurance is control over the supply chain for the benefit of the buyers. The same as happened in the pig job..
@Simon Bainbridge I look forward to your explanation as to how what I predict cannot happen.
He might be a good farmer but he certainly won't be a good businessman long term because Waitrose won't look after hm when the livestock markets have gone and all competition by buyers has gone.