With a looming shortage of pickers etc why o why are the NFU not setting or should have set up already a go to site for farmers and workers to try till fill positions . Well it is the nfu so they do feck all . The country's farmers needs you NFU now earn your subs an not leave it to the small recruiters .
Shortage of workers and the NFU
- Thread starter tw15
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- Location
- Herefordshire
There are dozens of recruitment/job finding websites, why would the NFU setting one up make any difference? Can’t see Dave the ex hotel concierge thinking ‘quite fancy a job picking asparagus, ah I know, I bet the NFU will sort me a job out, best give Minette a bell’
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
It puzzles me how folk look to the government or in this case the NFU to sort things out for them. Or why they even think they might be able to.
A go to website for workers is not hard to set up, do it yourself for goodness sake. I’ve no affiliation with the NFU but people on here whinging about them rather than doing something about it themselves is just daft. Whatever the NFUs job is it is not an employment agency. If you are able to whinge on here you are just as able to set up a Facebook page to organise workers. Just point them to Clives free jobs board for starters.
A go to website for workers is not hard to set up, do it yourself for goodness sake. I’ve no affiliation with the NFU but people on here whinging about them rather than doing something about it themselves is just daft. Whatever the NFUs job is it is not an employment agency. If you are able to whinge on here you are just as able to set up a Facebook page to organise workers. Just point them to Clives free jobs board for starters.
- Location
- Wiltshire
I don’t know about anyone else but I have had half a dozen calls from people desperate for work. Most with little or no agricultural experience. I suspect they won’t be the last there are some very worried people out there.
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- Location
- Cirencester
Snap, was stopped in the village by a chap asking for work, think they are just climbing the walls being stuck inside
Have you not seen the xenophobic, isolationist, hysterical video on the NFU fb page ?
They don't want strangers in the countryside unless they use hand gel every time they touch something. How does that work when trying to recruit 90,000 workers ?
Or is it just that you can touch something as long as it is turning me a penny, but not if it is saving your families sanity ?
They don't want strangers in the countryside unless they use hand gel every time they touch something. How does that work when trying to recruit 90,000 workers ?
Or is it just that you can touch something as long as it is turning me a penny, but not if it is saving your families sanity ?
- Location
- Wiltshire
Because we milk 3 times I have quite a number of milkers who just milk nights. It has always been very interesting who we end up with most dont have any experience with agriculture before they start. My full time guys enjoy training them as its a break from routine. Over the years I have had a few school leavers getting experience before college, a postie, retired met police officer, a barrister and her lawyer daughter, a few professional relief milkers. A few mums who like to leave the husband with the kids while they go and earn some pub money.
They are people out there who can do these jobs, I do think at times that the agricultural industry tries to make itself exclusive but we are in different times now and that will bring opportunities for some.
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Absolutely. Which is why the NFU's "get off my land" isn't exactly helping to make the most of this opportunity out of adversity.
- Location
- Wiltshire
Had another 2 work enquiries today. Its is not good out there 
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DRC
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Friend rang today . His main job is as a self employed aircraft technician and he’s also built and fitted out three canal boats, which he and his wife run as a holiday business. So both incomes have crashed over night.
Said he’d heard that farmers were looking for fruit/ veg pickers and he was prepared to do what it takes to put food on the table , just needs pointing in the right direction .
Said he’d heard that farmers were looking for fruit/ veg pickers and he was prepared to do what it takes to put food on the table , just needs pointing in the right direction .
- Location
- Wiltshire
According to the NFU website they are working on a recruitment system with the government. It does say that furloughed workers can take on another job. So things do seem to be slowly happening.
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gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Fine for furloughed workers to be able to take another job.
But no way in hell should they be getting 80% of their normal wages AND have another job at the same time!
- Location
- Wiltshire
Just repeating what the site said when the question was asked. From the calls I have been getting there are some very desperate people out there and that is 1 week into shutdown. God knows what it will be like in a couple of months.
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- Location
- Angus
NFU Scotland have this https://www.nfus.org.uk/coronavirus/employment-opportunities-on-farms.aspx
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Pilatus
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I find all the above very interesting, as I am about to start a thread asking , “How are abattoirs, food processors, veg harvesting and packing line’s managing to operate at the present ,unprecedented times”, it must be extremely difficult.
Off topic.
Meanwhile a big thankyou to those in society who are still working so that food is appearing , “As by magic on supermarket shelves”.
Off topic.
Meanwhile a big thankyou to those in society who are still working so that food is appearing , “As by magic on supermarket shelves”.
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- harvesting
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