Soil management plan

[db9go]

Just found one on nsf website but thank you
Nick...

i am being a bit think were on there website is it please

 

[Hampton]

I just up date mine every year by adding a few details but dont think its been looked at for at least five

You don’t need to update it. It is a plan of erosion risk. Slope and soil type remains the same every year.

 

[Hampton]

Inspectors must know whether anyone is doing anything right or wrong they just get told what they need to hear to pass
I know when some farms get their inspections as there is a major tidy up
You don’t see Vosa telling you when there going to be at the side of the a1 or wherever

I was talking to a solicitor friend of mine about farm assurance making unannounced visits and he was astounded. He says even the short notice visits to audit his business requires him to be given two weeks notice

 

[nick...]

i am being a bit think were on there website is it please

I got onto nfu website as I could not find it on nsf site
Nick...

 

[ShooTa]

i can only see the online survey rather than a printable version.

 

[nick...]

Can’t find it now.googke nfu ipm plan.thats whats on my email that they sent and I printed out
Nick...

 

[nick...]

i am being a bit think were on there website is it please

Pm me your email if you can’t find it and I’ll foreward it.no idea how to add attachment
Nick...

 

[nick...]

i can only see the online survey rather than a printable version.

I filled it in online then they emailed a version I printed out
Nick...

 

[stroller]

https://www.nsfinternationalfood.co.uk/services/documents/farm_record_book_2017.pdf
It's in here, I'm still try to summon up the enthusiasm to fill it in, I think I would rather watch love island or submarine racing.

 

[rob1]

Anyone got a template for this
Nick...

IIRC csi or whatever they call themselves have one, the one I used was in the book they sent out years ago

 

[Midnight plough boy]

@Guy Smith

Don’t get your hopes up that @Guy Smith will have anything useful to say. I asked him about Red Tractor inspections at a conference back in February with regard to the increasing amount of petty, sometimes pretty unrelated questions that are in the inspections, and how the inspections are year on year just jobs for the boys. He pretty much batted the question away saying that we need more accountability in food production.

Granted it shouldn’t be a free for all, but there needs to be a line drawn on what information needs to be provided. I was left with the impression (which I pretty much knew anyway, but it was confirmed first hand) that the NFU are out for an easy life and would prefer to look after themselves rather than their fee paying members.

 

[gone up the hill]

Don’t get your hopes up that @Guy Smith will have anything useful to say. I asked him about Red Tractor inspections at a conference back in February with regard to the increasing amount of petty, sometimes pretty unrelated questions that are in the inspections, and how the inspections are year on year just jobs for the boys. He pretty much batted the question away saying that we need more accountability in food production.

Granted it shouldn’t be a free for all, but there needs to be a line drawn on what information needs to be provided. I was left with the impression (which I pretty much knew anyway, but it was confirmed first hand) that the NFU are out for an easy life and would prefer to look after themselves rather than their fee paying members.

NFU co-own red tractor and the NFU president aka Mintte Batters sits on the RT board and she always supports more rules/ red tape/ costs for farmers in that role...................................

 

[stroller]

Just finished mine, I made a template with Excel, but what pointless waste of time.

 

[Guy Smith]

Don’t get your hopes up that @Guy Smith will have anything useful to say. I asked him about Red Tractor inspections at a conference back in February with regard to the increasing amount of petty, sometimes pretty unrelated questions that are in the inspections, and how the inspections are year on year just jobs for the boys. He pretty much batted the question away saying that we need more accountability in food production.

Granted it shouldn’t be a free for all, but there needs to be a line drawn on what information needs to be provided. I was left with the impression (which I pretty much knew anyway, but it was confirmed first hand) that the NFU are out for an easy life and would prefer to look after themselves rather than their fee paying members.

Apologies for appearing dismissive - was this in Norwich or York?. If so my only excuse is that when you are chairing a conference you don’t always have time to pay proper attention to what you are being asked. So apologies again.

 

[Midnight plough boy]

@Guy Smith It was in the Q and A section at the end of your speech at the Hutchinsons conference. Plenty of time for you to have been less dismissive, plenty of time to have said “I’ll take your point on board and see what we as a union can do about it”, or even “I’m not sure whether anyone else feels the same as you about this, hang on, let me put a poll on The Farming Forum and see if any other growers think that the whole Red Tractor scheme is getting a bit of a farce”.

But as you have done (at the time of this post) with this thread in which you were tagged for your comment, you have been dismissive about the real issue.

 

[Plough on]

The ipm plan you get 2 nroso points too for filling out if you read on the start before filling out the form

 

[Guy Smith]

@Guy Smith It was in the Q and A section at the end of your speech at the Hutchinsons conference. Plenty of time for you to have been less dismissive, plenty of time to have said “I’ll take your point on board and see what we as a union can do about it”, or even “I’m not sure whether anyone else feels the same as you about this, hang on, let me put a poll on The Farming Forum and see if any other growers think that the whole Red Tractor scheme is getting a bit of a farce”.

But as you have done (at the time of this post) with this thread in which you were tagged for your comment, you have been dismissive about the real issue.

Now I recollect. I’ll be honest I thought I was in front of a room full of agronomists and I thought the questions were going to be about our lobbying on retaining actives which was the subject of my talk so I wasn’t really expecting anything on Red Tractor. But I like to think my reply wasn’t as dismissive as you suggest.

Thanks

Guy

 

[Bury the Trash]

No plan, just thought and application in practice here.

'Action s not theory is the way forward, power to the people.'.... Wolfie Smith.