Red Tractor suspension for a rejected load of grain?

MrNoo

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Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
Did you not fix/weld Frank S’s lawnmower for free when he failed you for that?
Frank was alright!! This was another but to be fair the doors were fully open when inspector arrived as had grain going out that day.
But yes I did weld up bits and bobs for him when he came for his inspection!!!!
 
Here you go, this was an email I received from them after a load was supposedly rejected for ergot. They stated that unless I rectified I would have membership revoked

I would email them back that they have no fudging clue what ergot is or how to control it. That email smacks of people who don't know what the fudge they are about.

That email is a joke. The way they are talking it is as if you have got ergot in there through improper handling or something. Biggest bunch of muppets going.
 

David.

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Mixed Farmer
Location
J11 M40
I too am sure I remember Clive being narked at their heavy handed treatment, after the only mouse turd in several thousand tons of grain was discovered...
I believe that mill intake offices have a red telephone with a direct line to RT HQ, much like Reagan and Gorbachev had to each other.
 
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ajd132

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Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
Masses? Is that from direct drilling .
What has direct drilling got to do with it? Our own ergot really isn’t bad, it just comes from blackgrass patches sometimes. However being involved with a business that has multiple colour sorters I know how much is being re-directed from many homes around east anglia in order to get sorted out, irrelevant of establishment system.
try harder next time 👍.
 

MrNoo

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Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
I would email them back that they have no fudging clue what ergot is or how to control it. That email smacks of people who don't know what the fudge they are about.

That email is a joke. The way they are talking it is as if you have got ergot in there through improper handling or something. Biggest bunch of muppets going.
This was last year, am unassured this year
 

ajd132

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Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
It is true that you will 'catch' ergot from blackgrass- I have seen blackgrass with ergot. I presume other grass species will be so infected by it also.
Spring wheat gets ergot regularly, every other crop I’ve very rarely ever seen any in it. It usually comes from blackgrass. On one farm this year out of all the spring barley that went into CS only two loads had ergot in, and they were loads from a wet 10 acres with a thin crop and blackgrass in it.
 

DRC

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What has direct drilling got to do with it? Our own ergot really isn’t bad, it just comes from blackgrass patches sometimes. However being involved with a business that has multiple colour sorters I know how much is being re-directed from many homes around east anglia in order to get sorted out, irrelevant of establishment system.
try harder next time 👍.
I read that it survives in the top inch and ploughing gets rid . Touch wood, I’ve never had trouble with it .
 

DRC

Member
That’s right. Same as fusarium. Ploughing reduces it much more than direct drilling. It’s all there in the mycotoxin risk assessment.
Wonder if DEFRA have read it?
Yes, lots of things that we were taught about green bridges back in the day, don’t seem to bother people now.
carry over of weeds and diseases.
 

ajd132

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
That’s right. Same as fusarium. Ploughing reduces it much more than direct drilling. It’s all there in the mycotoxin risk assessment.
Wonder if DEFRA have read it?
Nothing is perfect. Take all worse in ploughing and cultivated than unmoved soil (less oxygen). Blackgrass seeds best left on the surface to degrade and herbicides work rather than be tucked into a nice bed to be seen another year or grow from depth. BYDV arguably worse in ploughing with lush early growth and lots of N in the plant.
 

ajd132

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Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
How can bydv be worse in ploughing, than when you drill into a living green bridge, this unseasonably mild early winter with plenty of early Oct drilled crops ought to tell.
More so with all the growers who have declared that they were through with insecticides.
Connected to nitrogen levels in the plant that allows the aphids to detect them easier.
 

Flat 10

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Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
I read that it survives in the top inch and ploughing gets rid . Touch wood, I’ve never had trouble with it .
Not convinced. I don’t remember it when we burnt stubbles but it’s certainly been a problem in an era where everything has been ploughed here. Rialto was a variety of wheat very prone to it.
 

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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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