Red Tractor Chair sells out all members

[An Gof]

You couldn’t make it up The Chair of Red Tractor has sold out all members. Whilst she is happy to take farmers hard earned money whilst tying them in ever tighter knots she is happy to vote against food imports having to meet the standards of the organisation she presided over in the UK. Surely her position is untenable and she should either fall on her sword or be booted out.

Shock as Red Tractor chair votes 'to lower food standards' - Farmers Weekly

Farm leaders have expressed disbelief after the chair of the company behind the Red Tractor Assurance scheme voted against measures aimed at protecting

www.fwi.co.uk

 

[teslacoils]

Should be sacked tomorrow. No payoff. Total disgrace.

 

[milkloss]

I wouldn’t have expected much else tbh. RT couldn’t even promote themselves in a positive light over the horse meat scandal.

 

[Bury the Trash]

they havn't had anything from me for a few yrs nor will they get a penny from me ever again.
wasters.
shes ugly as well.

 

[Al R]

You couldn’t make it up The Chair of Red Tractor has sold out all members. Whilst she is happy to take farmers hard earned money whilst tying them in ever tighter knots she is happy to vote against food imports having to meet the standards of the organisation she presided over in the UK. Surely her position is untenable and she should either fall on her sword or be booted out.

Shock as Red Tractor chair votes 'to lower food standards' - Farmers Weekly

Farm leaders have expressed disbelief after the chair of the company behind the Red Tractor Assurance scheme voted against measures aimed at protecting

www.fwi.co.uk

All of the hoops and tape they’ve put upon farmers to “up” standards yet she goes and p!sses on everyone’s chips... imagine what the french would do if this happened to them!!!

 

[An Gof]

they havn't had anything from me for a few yrs nor will they get a penny from me ever again.
wasters.
shes ugly as well.

Now that you come to mention it ......

 

[Bury the Trash]

Now that you come to mention it ......

i wouldnt p iss on one of them lot if they were on fire the bunch of crooks and shysters.

its time farmers stood up for themselves against all this crap, if nothing other than to preserve their own mental health.

 

[An Gof]

Going to be an interesting first RT AFS Board meeting for @Guy Smith I wonder if the Board will call for a vote of no confidence in the Chair.

 

[Goweresque]

How much more evidence do you people need that RT is run entirely for the benefit of the supermarkets and the processors, and not the producers?

The power is in your hands, just leave. If you all stop paying them they disappear. If you stay you're effectively saying you like being shat on from a great height.

 

[Chris F]

Red Tractor = Gravy Train.

 

[Bury the Trash]

How much more evidence do you people need that RT is run entirely for the benefit of the supermarkets and the processors, and not the producers?

The power is in your hands, just leave. If you all stop paying them they disappear. If you stay you're effectively saying you like being shat on from a great height.

Yes it's that simple.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

You couldn’t make it up

 

[Steevo]

How much more evidence do you people need that RT is run entirely for the benefit of the supermarkets and the processors, and not the producers?

Quote from the above article:

“Before she was appointed ASF chair, Baroness Neville-Rolfe spent 15 years at Tesco where she was an executive director on the main board from 2006 to 2013.”

 

[Giles1]

Political appointment?

 

[ajd132]

Who chooses these people to be on things like this?
Red tractor is absolutely f**king farcical. I wonder if that sponger Jim Mosley will write into the farmers weekly again next week stating how good a value RT is.
we need to boycott this gravy train.

 

[kiwi pom]

How much more evidence do you people need that RT is run entirely for the benefit of the supermarkets and the processors, and not the producers?

Of course it is, I don't know why its so hard to understand.

Time to get rid of it and just let customers ask for their own requirements.

Supermarkets and processors will have requirements of course but at least you can pick and choose who you sell to.

 

[Banana Bar]

Going to be an interesting first RT AFS Board meeting for @Guy Smith I wonder if the Board will call for a vote of no confidence in the Chair.

They bloody well should

 

[Banana Bar]

Minette Batters needs to be getting some air time on this.

 

[mixed breed]

It's utterly disgraceful and makes a mockery of the standards we are having to adhear too. I'm with you all, I really am but, how do you not do RT, I can tell them to pee off with the beef and lamb it doesn't make a huge difference in the market provided the animals are well finished, But If I did the same with the dairy side my buyer wouldn't collect and i'd be left with an unsaleable product as all the dairies are handcuffed into assurance by the supermarkets.

 

[cb387]

Absolute disgrace. I fear all the emailing and protesting will make sweet fa difference. The only way RT will take any notice is through a major downturn in their income.