The Red Tractor ACCS referendum

[Drillman]

Strangely on the rt face ache page it’s very rare you see anything other than negative comments.

the fact they are deleting comments from what are obviously members of there scheme rather than engaging with them just shows how untenable there position is.

burying there heads in the sand rather than trying to get growers on board.

not a good business model imo.

 

[Barleymow]

Just commented their latest post, least it helps to use up the money we pay getting someone to keep deleting it all

 

[MrNoo]

I see they've jumped on the Clarkson program bandwagon extolling the virtues on Faceache

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[Barleymow]

I see they've jumped on the Clarkson program bandwagon extolling the virtues on Faceache

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I did

 

[Pigless]

I see they've jumped on the Clarkson program bandwagon extolling the virtues on Faceache

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And me!

 

[MrNoo]

And me!

Think mine have now been removed.....!!

 

[Vader]

Anyone know JC ?
He would be the 1 to get the rt rubbish exposed

 

[snipe]

To anyone going or thinking of going to cereals. Please make the effort to visit the AHDB stand and give your opinion on RT and the current import regulations. Looks like there will be a vote on the AHDB arable section in the near future. They will only help us if we express our concerns to them.

 

[Two Tone]

Anyone know JC ?
He would be the 1 to get the rt rubbish exposed

I’ve got to go there in July to Round bale some hay for the guy who has recently started renting the grassland to keep his own sheep on. If I see JC, I’ll mention it.

I have a feeling that cheerful Charlie Ireland might try stop him from doing so. Charlie is great. But I can’t understand why he told JC to buy both the cultivator and the Claydon Direct drill. JC and Kaleb wasted a week cultivating ground when they could have Direct drilled the lot and got it all in before the wet weather hit us in late September 2019.

 

[Flat 10]

I’ve got to go there in July to Round bale some hay for the guy who has recently started renting the grassland to keep his own sheep on. If I see JC, I’ll mention it.

I have a feeling that cheerful Charlie Ireland might try stop him from doing so. Charlie is great. But I can’t understand why he told JC to buy both the cultivator and the Claydon Direct drill. JC and Kaleb wasted a week cultivating ground when they could have Direct drilled the lot and got it all in before the wet weather hit us in late September 2019.

My neighbour has a claydon and he likes to cultivate first and then it seems to do a better job. All his crops look good.

 

[Two Tone]

My neighbour has a claydon and he likes to cultivate first and then it seems to do a better job. All his crops look good.

On JC’s land, cultivating before the Claydon will be a Blackgrass disaster waiting to happen.
They have since bought a Weaving Sabre Tyne drill.

 

[Flat 10]

On JC’s land, cultivating before the Claydon will be a Blackgrass disaster waiting to happen.
They have since bought a Weaving Sabre Tyne drill.

I think my neighbour does it to chit BG before drilling. His farm was pretty bad but looks good now.

 

[Drillman]

Assurance company sent me a snotty letter today threatening to throw me out because they haven’t sent a membership invoice for me to pay

They got an equally snotty reply to that one

I Just love it when these organisations drop themselves in it due to a total and utter lack of traceability at there end The very thing there supposed to be responsible for!

 

[Barleymow]

Assurance company sent me a snotty letter today threatening to throw me out because they haven’t sent a membership invoice for me to pay

They got an equally snotty reply to that one

I Just love it when these organisations drop themselves in it due to a total and utter lack of traceability at there end The very thing there supposed to be responsible for!

They don't know there arse from their elbow by the sound of it

 

[Grass And Grain]

To anyone going or thinking of going to cereals. Please make the effort to visit the AHDB stand and give your opinion on RT and the current import regulations. Looks like there will be a vote on the AHDB arable section in the near future. They will only help us if we express our concerns to them.

And the NFU stand.

The more farmers who communicate their frustrations, the more they will realise how unhappy we all are with the double standards, and how important it is to fix it.

 

[colhonk]

So is GUY not interested in us mere mortal farmers now that he appears to have taken the Devils shilling?

 

[teslacoils]

To anyone going or thinking of going to cereals. Please make the effort to visit the AHDB stand and give your opinion on RT and the current import regulations. Looks like there will be a vote on the AHDB arable section in the near future. They will only help us if we express our concerns to them.

I shall be at cereals. Won't be at the NFU stand as I'm not a member, but will be making my feelings known at Rt. Will probably stop short at tipping a bucket of wheat on the ground, dropping my keks and curling one out on top of it .

 

[SilliamWhale]

So is GUY not interested in us mere mortal farmers now that he appears to have taken the Devils shilling?

Guy is now an employee and representative of Red Tractor. He is paid to represent RT best interests, not you.

This is what he said when he took the job:

Guy Smith said: “I’m delighted to join Red Tractor at such a critical time for British Agriculture. I’ve been Red Tractor Assured since its inception twenty years ago. Their standards have been developed over two decades and are the bedrock of our industry. We must continue to protect and defend these standards, and work to win the hearts and minds of government, consumers and the industry; so we don’t witness an influx of imported food produced to standards that are lower than the UK.”

 

[tullah]

I'm surprised RT have the face to have a stand there.
Like Harry coming back here.

 

[Grass And Grain]

Guy is now an employee and representative of Red Tractor. He is paid to represent RT best interests, not you.

This is rather sad isn't it. He's paid to make RT successful. That means keeping all the farmers enrolled in the scheme with no way out. Anything else and the chairman will have failed in his job.

All this knowing full well imports are entering our market with no assurance. As a farmer, how can anyone bring themselves to work for RT under those circumstances.

NFU reps are not fit to represent farmers on the RT board imho. Too much conflict of interest.