Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
Tell them you can't permit parasites into grain store.
Trading standards inspection on Arable Farm
- Thread starter Chap
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Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Maybe, but foot and mouth was imported into the country, it is thought most likely to feed British soldiers at the army barracks close to heddon the wall. And whilst it may have cost millions/billions to deal with many , probably all stock farmers lost out not only dealing with the extra regulations but by being at the mercy of the meat trade with the markets closed not to mention the extra stress.
F&M is not something farmers want to see and whilst trading standards might make a bit of a thing about movements and clean trailers the place it needs stopping is at our borders.
Thanks looking forward to it!
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Had mine last autumn,no worries,just showed her all the red tractor records,she want to have a look in the corn stores,no issues.
Got a RPA inspection tomorrow which is my first inspection
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Got a RPA inspection tomorrow which is my first inspection
.Good luck tomorrow.....Had mine last autumn,no worries,just showed her all the red tractor records,she want to have a look in the corn stores,no issues.
Got a RPA inspection tomorrow which is my first inspection
None of my sheds are cleaned out for harvest. Got machines backed in everywhere. Will this matter?
- Location
- Lincolnshire.
Er no since you have time to clean your sheds before harvest and your machines won't be spewing oil all over the shop. Stop worrying!
- Location
- Lincolnshire
No shouldn't do,just has long as there is no pools of oil,better not park your sprayer in there,just in case.
My sheds aren't cleaned out either
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- Location
- Yorks
Asked us if we had records of grain moisture, pre and post drying. Also dryer maintenance iirc.
We had one a couple of years back. Two girls who looked about 16 got out of a white van. never said a word, donned white hard hats, hy viz jackets, armed themselves with a load of self seal plastic bags, camera, rubber gloves, and a trowel!
The conversation went something like this:
"We want to see where you produce the food"
"OK this is a grain store"
I opened the first shed which had 800 tons of wheat in and they peered into the darkness and said "OK".
"Right, we want to see where you keep your poisons"
So I took them to my spray shed and they had no idea what planet they were on. So I said "Do you want to see my spray records?". Probably, they said, so I gave them about twenty years worth of recommendation sheets and sprayer records. They looked at them, but it was obvious they had no idea what they were looking at.
"We would like to see how clean your machinery is". The only thing in the yard was my vaderstad which had just come in from drilling 800 acres of cereals, and fairly covered in dust,
"But where is the machinery you use to produce food?"
"That is the machinery we use to produce food. we grow wheat, barley and rape, stick it on a lorry and that is the last we see of it! It's not a jam factory!!!"
I think at this point they realised they were out of their depth and decided to go.
"Hang on" I said, "I need some proof that you were here and passed inspection"
They rummaged about in the van, produced a pad signed it, gave it to me for the records, and left. It wasn't till after they left I took a good look at the form they signed and it was a cattle inspection form, and we havn't had a cow on the farm for 50 years.
Last year they asked to do another inspection so I related the story. She then said "Do you do mill and mix" and I said no. So he said "we will give it a miss then".
Never did discover what they wanted a trowel for!!!
The conversation went something like this:
"We want to see where you produce the food"
"OK this is a grain store"
I opened the first shed which had 800 tons of wheat in and they peered into the darkness and said "OK".
"Right, we want to see where you keep your poisons"
So I took them to my spray shed and they had no idea what planet they were on. So I said "Do you want to see my spray records?". Probably, they said, so I gave them about twenty years worth of recommendation sheets and sprayer records. They looked at them, but it was obvious they had no idea what they were looking at.
"We would like to see how clean your machinery is". The only thing in the yard was my vaderstad which had just come in from drilling 800 acres of cereals, and fairly covered in dust,
"But where is the machinery you use to produce food?"
"That is the machinery we use to produce food. we grow wheat, barley and rape, stick it on a lorry and that is the last we see of it! It's not a jam factory!!!"
I think at this point they realised they were out of their depth and decided to go.
"Hang on" I said, "I need some proof that you were here and passed inspection"
They rummaged about in the van, produced a pad signed it, gave it to me for the records, and left. It wasn't till after they left I took a good look at the form they signed and it was a cattle inspection form, and we havn't had a cow on the farm for 50 years.
Last year they asked to do another inspection so I related the story. She then said "Do you do mill and mix" and I said no. So he said "we will give it a miss then".
Never did discover what they wanted a trowel for!!!
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Ha, What a total waste of time, jobs for the boys...
llamedos
New Member
2 16 year old girls armed with a trowel.
I don't like the sound of that at all....
I don't like the sound of that at all....
should have told them mind the bugs dont run up them, probably would have left very quicklyThey had got shorts on and were fairly fit though
davidroberts30
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
8 hour site inductionDon't forget to make them sign in and out in the visitors register, then they'll need a site induction.
obviously they should also be wearing hi vis, safety boots and safety glasses if walking around site.
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
I thought one of the selling points of red tractor assurance was that other agencies would take membership as a sign of compliance with regulations so you would get less inspectionsHad mine last autumn,no worries,just showed her all the red tractor records,she want to have a look in the corn stores,no issues.
Got a RPA inspection tomorrow which is my first inspection
It makes you wonder if RT have been telling farmers lies in order to sell their scheme................in which case would that make it ok for farmers to tell lies in order to pass an inspection? After all, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
2wheels
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- aberdeenshire
not being sexist but the term is, " lassies doing a loon's job and getting a man's wage".Girls