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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 7431606" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>As a feed wheat and barley grower how can any supermarket shopper possibly have any meaningful "product life story" from my farm to their fork, especially when my product usually has to exit and animals arse before it's actually achieved its purpose in life? That's the insanity of trying to fit a standard that might be OK for veg or salads products that arrive in the shop in the same state as they leave the farm, to bulk commodities that undergo many more processes and are only secondary to the final product.</p><p>I don't produce food for people. I produce a raw material in bulk for the livestock sector. Yes it should meet basic standards of hygiene as we don't want disease tranferring into livestock units but it isn't really a story of any interest to Charlotte and Sharon.</p><p>Similar really for sugar beet. It leaves the farm lathered in grit and clay in a dirty great lorry, is mixed with everybody else's beet from across the region. Its a bulk commodity, there is no traceability once it reaches the factory, no farm to fork story. Bulk raw material, not dainty artisan product. I am not going to start hand washing them and wrapping them in brown paper. There is no meaningful premium to be had. About all I can say is I have complied with fertiliser and pesticide rules in the production of the crop. Big deal. You'd expect that anyway. It's the legal minimum.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 7431606, member: 2119"] As a feed wheat and barley grower how can any supermarket shopper possibly have any meaningful "product life story" from my farm to their fork, especially when my product usually has to exit and animals arse before it's actually achieved its purpose in life? That's the insanity of trying to fit a standard that might be OK for veg or salads products that arrive in the shop in the same state as they leave the farm, to bulk commodities that undergo many more processes and are only secondary to the final product. I don't produce food for people. I produce a raw material in bulk for the livestock sector. Yes it should meet basic standards of hygiene as we don't want disease tranferring into livestock units but it isn't really a story of any interest to Charlotte and Sharon. Similar really for sugar beet. It leaves the farm lathered in grit and clay in a dirty great lorry, is mixed with everybody else's beet from across the region. Its a bulk commodity, there is no traceability once it reaches the factory, no farm to fork story. Bulk raw material, not dainty artisan product. I am not going to start hand washing them and wrapping them in brown paper. There is no meaningful premium to be had. About all I can say is I have complied with fertiliser and pesticide rules in the production of the crop. Big deal. You'd expect that anyway. It's the legal minimum. [/QUOTE]
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