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<blockquote data-quote="gone up the hill" data-source="post: 1054664" data-attributes="member: 1048"><p>Can you confirm if your a working livestock farmer or do you have a commercial intrest in the RT being pushed onto farmers??</p><p></p><p>As for cattle price's, deadweight of cattle is dropping every week currently.. the aim is to get it down to the Irish price, Farm assurance isn't making any difference to UK farm gate prices.. our prices have historically been higher than all other EU country's before farm assurance was even on the radar!!</p><p></p><p>Farm Assurance wont encourage arable farmers to go into livestock production.. only 3 things that will do that is the drive to return OM to stale arable ground and the need for a better break crop to get on to of BG/ the lack of chemicals to deal with weed problems..</p><p></p><p>As for the consumers.. are you talking about the supermarkets or the housewife?? as the latter doesn't give a damn about farm assurance and 90%+ have no idea what the RT logo is let alone what it stands for!!</p><p></p><p>The question still hasn't been answered is what happens to a farms stock if they are non assured for a few days for reasons such as the farmer has personal/ health problems for example?? will these stock then be worthless if WLA is introduced??</p><p></p><p>Also if the RT logo is so strong why is the collection centre's prices only 4pk less for non assured lambs??</p><p></p><p>And if you believe they wont ramp up the rules for a calve rearing scheme after a couple of years of it being introduced you are living in cloud cukoo land.. ( they said that about the current farm assurance when it was first mooted and what a lie that turned out to be!</p><p></p><p>Most farmers ( myself included ) support a basic farm assurance scheme covering say 20 main points but the rules being introduced for the current scheme are getting stupid and have no relevance for the safe/ welfare friendly rearing of animals but instead are just being introduced for the sake of it and also it needs to be voluntary and not forced onto farmers which is the case with the WLA proposal!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gone up the hill, post: 1054664, member: 1048"] Can you confirm if your a working livestock farmer or do you have a commercial intrest in the RT being pushed onto farmers?? As for cattle price's, deadweight of cattle is dropping every week currently.. the aim is to get it down to the Irish price, Farm assurance isn't making any difference to UK farm gate prices.. our prices have historically been higher than all other EU country's before farm assurance was even on the radar!! Farm Assurance wont encourage arable farmers to go into livestock production.. only 3 things that will do that is the drive to return OM to stale arable ground and the need for a better break crop to get on to of BG/ the lack of chemicals to deal with weed problems.. As for the consumers.. are you talking about the supermarkets or the housewife?? as the latter doesn't give a damn about farm assurance and 90%+ have no idea what the RT logo is let alone what it stands for!! The question still hasn't been answered is what happens to a farms stock if they are non assured for a few days for reasons such as the farmer has personal/ health problems for example?? will these stock then be worthless if WLA is introduced?? Also if the RT logo is so strong why is the collection centre's prices only 4pk less for non assured lambs?? And if you believe they wont ramp up the rules for a calve rearing scheme after a couple of years of it being introduced you are living in cloud cukoo land.. ( they said that about the current farm assurance when it was first mooted and what a lie that turned out to be! Most farmers ( myself included ) support a basic farm assurance scheme covering say 20 main points but the rules being introduced for the current scheme are getting stupid and have no relevance for the safe/ welfare friendly rearing of animals but instead are just being introduced for the sake of it and also it needs to be voluntary and not forced onto farmers which is the case with the WLA proposal!! [/QUOTE]
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