Red tractor new proposals

Steevo

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Gloucestershire
It seems to me that farmers have become the slaves to RT!!


Reminds me of the old joke.....


A man owned a small farm in Scotland. The Inland Revenue claimed he was not paying proper wages to his staff and sent a representative out to interview him.

'I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them,' demanded the rep.
'Well,' replied the farmer, 'there's my farmhand who's been with me for 3 years. I pay him £200 a week plus free room and board.'

'The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her £150 per week plus free room and board.'

'Then there's the half-wit. He works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about £10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of whiskey every Saturday night. He also sleeps with my wife occasionally.'

'That's the guy I want to talk to...the half-wit,' says the agent.

'That would be me then,' replied the farmer.
 

puppet

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Livestock Farmer
Location
sw scotland
Time to declare the couple you keep in the attic?
I can see where the big retailers are nervous about supply chains but they should sort out how they can be supplied by £5 single use clothes from sweat shops before getting excited about most farms.
Surely there could be a risk assessment based on a wage slip or the absence of 20 caravans parked in a shed.
For assurance we are asked what we do in a severe weather event now. Real answer is fed cattle then help out the neighbours, right answer is some vague risk assessment
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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