roquette corby to close

last time i had feed wheat they were looking at increasing production 2018 so they could supply product from the uk plant compared to importing from france
they take from 25 miles radius of corby and buy a lot of non assured wheat

if they shut that will be 450000 tonnes less wheat needed in a normal year
for 2021 that could be 300000 tonnes less till harvest
they have to use wheat and are a long way from a port for imports
 

Andy26

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Not sent any Wheat there for over ten years, but back then they did hire a very large grain store near Peterborough and bought thousands and thousands of tons off the combine.

As mentioned one of the few homes for non assured Wheat and I understand quite flexible on the quality, as in it needed very little.

Was always a good place to send, they had there own contracted haulier back then (probably still do as I see the same lorries go past daily) and they had several spare trailers so could drop a trailer and return with an empty promptly, leaving a shunter in the yard to tip the trailers.

Sad, but economics change, things go full circle. Perhaps years in the future, when the exported environmental cost is added back in, local processing of bulk commodities will again become economic.
 

Andy26

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Went past last week...
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Just in case anyone thinks they might have a change of heart...
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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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