Red Tractor virtual audit - how it went!

[ewald]

I would think that most of us can tell the difference between wheat at 14 or 20%....

Marconi meters have a self test circuit - I usually use this as a datum and cross check the other meter.
And finally.... the old hand coffee grinder I use to prepare the sample is actually pretty accurate without the meter! If it crackles through, you should be combining. If you have to push it in with a screwdriver, go back into the house!

 

[DrWazzock]

The steepness of the heap as the combine pours it into the trailer is another good indicator of moisture.
Got our livestock remote inspection next week. It’s every 18 months but the arable is every 12 months and occurs annually in November.
Just when you think you have a clear run at replacing the loader engine ready for harvest there are several days of sorting out paperwork to deal with.
I never seem to get a clear run at anything nowadays. Constant non productive interruptions that end up with really important things not getting done or done too late.

 

[ewald]

I generally get to about Thursday and think ‘Quiet week coming up, I can do this or that job’ Never happens. By Monday morning calendar is full, usual fire brigade week ahead!

(I used to say it out loud to my wife - if I do now, I just get the withering look)

 

[DrWazzock]

Well that’s our livestock audit done this morning. Arable in 6 months time. Something new creeps in every year. Uploading pest management plans and manure management plans through the year is next on the cards. It never reduces, just keeps on growing. If we could reduce not increase costs it would help greatly to compete with inputs.
What’s it going to be, keep costs low and compete with imports or keep adding costs here for “quality” and keep stuff out that doesn’t meet our standards? Can’t have it both ways without making us uncompetitive.
And when people say it’s just another form or a box to tick, well no it isn’t if you do it properly. Usually the extra form is just the tip of an iceberg of requirements that need to met, and how do I find the time to do it? I have enough on already.

 

[Big_D]

How do you go about making a complaint to the beggars? My mother had a shirty phonecall this morning threatening that our milk wasn't going to be uplifted. They didn't give a name, number and said they were from the "assurance people" don't have an administration of medicines certificate because I missed the course the vets ran, they want a date if when the next course is. Absolute stupidity. Immediately after virtual assessment, started getting automated emails saying urgent corrective action required, was 2 or 3 weeks before an actual person emailed to say what they wanted. Fuming.

 

[DrWazzock]

Is that course where you spend an evening injecting an orange? My brother went on that course and at the end of the evening one old farmer peeled the orange and ate it. Waste not want not. I never found it quite so easy to inject a jittery animal in a crush though.

 

[Fen Farmer]

Are NSF back doing physical inspections? NSF guy reckons he has been doing on farm inspections as well as doing paperwork in the office! Says most are happy with him wearing a mask. Is that honestly deemed acceptable at the moment? Wants to come at the beginning of Dec so would still be in lockdown.

 

[Brisel]

Are NSF back doing physical inspections? NSF guy reckons he has been doing on farm inspections as well as doing paperwork in the office! Says most are happy with him wearing a mask. Is that honestly deemed acceptable at the moment? Wants to come at the beginning of Dec so would still be in lockdown.

There's a more recent thread on the subject here;

Lockdown red tractor inspection

Two weeks ago my assesor rang to book a visit for the second week of November. He said it would be as normal but we could email any paperwork early to minimise the time he spent here on the day. Its now looking like we will be in lockdown, and I'm starting to wander if he will want it done via...

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