Aye tell them to f**k off
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all these "don't do it" 'just lie" posts......................... come on guys grow a pair, get some integrity and stop being bullied by this blackmail scheme
i'm not missing the point, I know how to play their silly and pointless game and have done many times in the past - there are mice in my bloody farmhouse and always will be probably - what do they expect us to do ? destroy every rodent in the land ? ..................bet the public (our customers) would love that
There are not realistic, there will always be a low level of rodents on any farm and Im not going to lie and pretend otherwise to support some bullpoo box ticking protection racket
It's about time someone stood up to this stupidity
they will see this thread I'm sure
trouble is do the give a shite as long as we keep paying the protection racket money ?
all these "don't do it" 'just lie" posts......................... come on guys grow a pair, get some integrity and stop being bullied by this blackmail scheme
Sorry, but as a cereal grower I DONT WANT FAECES IN MY BREAKFAST, and neither do the general public.
RT is designed to give create confidence in ALL OF OUR products, by establishing a standard for fit and proper produce for the human food chain.
You failed to meet that standard. Not by much, but you failed.
You can either rant about it, or sort it out.
What about the droppings they did not find?Are these people for real - this stupidity has to stop
So after after storing 10's of thousands of grain this season in our farm / commercial stores, last week we deliver the last load of milling wheat, as we all know as practical farmers the last load form a store involves some sweeping down etc
1 (yes ONE) mouse dropping found ! so load rejected for milling, this is the ONLY rejection we have had all year so a very small % of our crop wheat crop ALL of which has gone to gp1 quality markets,
NO issue with the merchant, we discussed bringing back to clean, (not that ONE mouse dropping hardly justifies ) but we are fortunate to have modern facility to do so or re direct to a feed whet home (are chickens REALLY that picky ?)
Haulage and workload considered we decided it was best to redirect to a feed home - disappointing but not the end of the world, merchant as disappointed as us I think and just as annoyed by the pettyness of RT
NOW THE RIDICULOUS
A letter arrives yesterday from Red Tractor saying we are suspended from the scheme until we write to them explaining what we are going to do about our rodent problem.
I could write back and tell them how sorry we are and how we will change our policies etc. I'm sure a bit of bullpoo along those lines would satisfy them despite the fact it would change nothing and I would in reality do nothing different at all. Doing so would simply make me dishonest when there is nothing better or more that I can realistically do, there is no problem. The problem is their completely unrealistic and frankly ludicrous idea that any farm has no mice on it whatsoever
We don't NOT have a rodent problem, our storage facility is second to none IMO, we pass assurance with no uncompliances most years, and are not only red tractor assured but assured as a 3rd party store and testing lab under the way more robust GTAS scheme, we have a regular baiting policy and records , its very rare we see a mouse and I have never seen a rat in our yard. Bait points are plentiful, toped up regularly and are well located, modern buildings are sealed as well as any building can be, realistically there is nothing more that could be done to keep any rodent issues to a minimum here
I will be writing to tell them I intend to do nothing, there schemes is ridiculous, do they seriously expect there to be no mice at all on a farmyard ? Can ANY farm serious claim they have ZERO mice ever ?
Something needs to be done about these idiots, they are not being realistic here, if a modern multimillion £ storage facility like we have here can't satisfy them god only knows what will
What's the solution ? we have added this layer of extra cost to our business that has turned most farmers into liars to satisfy their unrealistic expectations, all so we can "compete" with grain and meat imported from markets where they don't even store stuff indoors quite often !
So who has a grain store that is 100% secure against mice?
I'd be amazed if anyone has ....the little barstewards can get anywhere. ...
Probably not if you could prove when you last wormed the cat
What about the droppings they did not find?
What happened to the mouse !!
Is it dead or alive ?
Time to call in the mouse police?
When we empty out our store the last sweepings get incinerated !!!
Sorry, but as a cereal grower I DONT WANT FAECES IN MY BREAKFAST, and neither do the general public.
RT is designed to give create confidence in ALL OF OUR products, by establishing a standard for fit and proper produce for the human food chain.
You failed to meet that standard. Not by much, but you failed.
You can either rant about it, or sort it out.
YesDo arable farmers get put on a publicly available list when suspended like Beef and Lamb do.
Oh aye I'm with you on the big pair side, and I'm sure you don't actually mean that I have no integrity-none taken.all these "don't do it" 'just lie" posts......................... come on guys grow a pair, get some integrity and stop being bullied by this blackmail scheme