- Location
- Bedfordshire
Jim doesn’t look overly happy with Christine.
Todays Red Tractor Webinar - My questions
- Thread starter Clive
- Start date
- Location
- North Yorkshire
So cereal farmers are upsetting rt staff
With their consultation answers
With their consultation answers
But Jim when you mix all the grains together it means the RT brand is knackered. Yet cereal farmers are forced to adhere, at our own cost.
Wrong wrong wrong
It totally undermines the principles of RT and just takes the pee out of grain growers. No wonder we hate RT so much
Wrong wrong wrong
It totally undermines the principles of RT and just takes the pee out of grain growers. No wonder we hate RT so much
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Tbh, I'm pretty close to shoving my small farm into stewardship and going to flip burgers at McDonald's. That's the future of small family farms.
DRC
Member
I’m thinking the same. 60 next birthday .
stick it all in stewardship , although it sounds like they want you to be red tractor assured to be in ELMs.
proberly earn more!
- Location
- East Yorkshire
jim says its not a done deal do you believe him???????????? would make a good poll on here
didn't sound that way from his introduction and all the chat about moderne slavery, employment laws, ambition to become DEFRA ELMS policeman etc
So in conclusion:
No premiums
No desire to confront the fact that imports do not need the same standards as home grown
No branding of RT at all on one of apparent supporters of the scheme (McDonalds). Morrisons are a bit better.
More "standards" for little acknowledged gain.
No premiums
No desire to confront the fact that imports do not need the same standards as home grown
No branding of RT at all on one of apparent supporters of the scheme (McDonalds). Morrisons are a bit better.
More "standards" for little acknowledged gain.
- Location
- North Yorkshire
The future is more box ticking because that’s what the world today requires
And the assessment is to be done by qualified box tickers
What have we become
And the assessment is to be done by qualified box tickers
What have we become
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I'm not incentivised to grow food. Infact, I'm villified for it. Two years of mid tier, then stuff it. Can all be gs4, caked in digestate, stood grass sold for fodder and then grazed. I'll be in the warm, getting £10/hr, discount burgers, and actually speak to people. Farming isn't a charity. I'm not here for the fun. Soon as I can dump RT the better.
- Location
- Linconshire
Bust them. Then theyll pay the costs awarded against them on top of compensation. That will swallow them up for good together with their plush expensive premises all at our expense. Don't worry they will get their comeuppance.
thing is they know this is where we are heading so seek the remit for DEFRA to be the ELMS polices to keep the gravy train on its tracks
I am honestly starting to think the same, I've had enough of all these leaching idiots ! put the entire farm into ELMS and be rid of them all ............................ I will have so much spare time I could go get an NFU or RT job telling you all what to do
It took 30 years to put the krays away ....................
- Location
- Wiltshire
Your first sentence is the problem with society in general, I was actually asked by my parish rector yesterday what the church/parish could do to help farmers. I know it sounds a daft question but give her due she is really trying to learn about agriculture having been brought up in a city and now having a country parish. And my answer was respect us for feeding the nation. Everyone has forgotten that is the primary concern of agriculture not tearing up hedges and making footpaths muddy.
This is the problem with red tractor they have forgotten and alienated the industry they are supposed to support. At the same time they have created another industry that is just fleecing farmers.ABs attitude just proves this.
As a dairy and arable farmer I fully support the need for assurance but not the farce that we have now.
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I failed to get the joining email this morning!! :-(
Did the "panel" consist solely of these 5 people??? Were there actually any dissenting voices there?
No dissenting voices but to be fair that wouldn't have worked well on a zoom meeting anyway.
Anyway we know where they stand. They want continuous evolution of standards but only at a cost to the farmer and for no premium. 24 people employed at RT want to control the whole supply chain.
Petition: Temporary Ban on agricultural use of sewage cake
In order to protect our land, we’re seeking a temporary ban of the agricultural use of sewage cake until better testing and treatment of waste can be proven. We call on all farmers after this harvest to refuse to accept any more until things change.
Some research suggests that the contamination of land is far more serious than just heavy metal build ups. There is an increasing amount of micro plastics and forever chemicals appearing in sewage cake. We think testing for these when it leaves the processing plants isn’t adequate, and that processing needs to adapt to be able to remove these contaminants.
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