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<blockquote data-quote="traineefarmer" data-source="post: 7495620" data-attributes="member: 89974"><p>And so it continues. RT is no premium scheme, it is the baseline which supermarkets and processors add their own standards to. </p><p></p><p>Like it or not, assurance schemes aren't going away, because they are what our customers (retailers) want. But with individual retailers once again having their own individual standards, what is the need for RT? We already have "baseline" standards that in the form of statutory laws that cover animal welfare, employee rights, H+S, environmental protection, food safety and traceability record keeping.</p><p></p><p>RT's purpose was to offer "premium" market access to retailers and processors while reducing the administrative burden by being a "one size fits all". It has failed from day one to deliver this as retailers and processors look to be different from their competitors so have slowly added standards to strand out as unique.</p><p></p><p>This may well be the silver bullet we are looking for. RT isn't going to be scared of of a mass farmer boycott while they hold the keys to all our markets. But if we could get a high profile customer to abandon RT as their baseline with something else, maybe the dominos will really start to topple.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="traineefarmer, post: 7495620, member: 89974"] And so it continues. RT is no premium scheme, it is the baseline which supermarkets and processors add their own standards to. Like it or not, assurance schemes aren't going away, because they are what our customers (retailers) want. But with individual retailers once again having their own individual standards, what is the need for RT? We already have "baseline" standards that in the form of statutory laws that cover animal welfare, employee rights, H+S, environmental protection, food safety and traceability record keeping. RT's purpose was to offer "premium" market access to retailers and processors while reducing the administrative burden by being a "one size fits all". It has failed from day one to deliver this as retailers and processors look to be different from their competitors so have slowly added standards to strand out as unique. This may well be the silver bullet we are looking for. RT isn't going to be scared of of a mass farmer boycott while they hold the keys to all our markets. But if we could get a high profile customer to abandon RT as their baseline with something else, maybe the dominos will really start to topple. [/QUOTE]
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