- Location
- Angus
So why doesn't it get a mention on the main NFU site? The Welsh version is mentioned and linked to but nothing about Scotland. Thanks for the info though.
what has the NFU ever done for us?
- Thread starter tom
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So why doesn't it get a mention on the main NFU site? The Welsh version is mentioned and linked to but nothing about Scotland. Thanks for the info though.
- Location
- East Sussex
NFU Scotland (NFUS) is a completely autonomous organisation appointing its own leadership team and having its own staff.
Whereas Wales only appoints a Welsh leader but shares most of the services with England.
- Location
- Angus
Ok cool, thanks for that.
Wolds Beef
Member
@MintSauce Well done!! As a ex NFU staff member of the 1970's. ie when it was a county structure in Lincolnshire, I dispare when people ask 'what has the NFU done for them'. The NFU works dam hard and some farmers are riding on the back of this. You pay for what you get!!
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suffolksmallholder
Member
- Location
- Suffolk
@Clive
I went to my local Co op on Wednesday, having wrote a note to myself in BIG letters 'RED TRACTOR LOGO' on my to do white-board in lieu of my post & sifted carefully through the meat counter. RED TRACTOR logos on all the local meat. I was expecting it to be on the back but it is one of three stamps on the front. Great! happy SS
Now I know what to look for.
SS
I went to my local Co op on Wednesday, having wrote a note to myself in BIG letters 'RED TRACTOR LOGO' on my to do white-board in lieu of my post & sifted carefully through the meat counter. RED TRACTOR logos on all the local meat. I was expecting it to be on the back but it is one of three stamps on the front. Great! happy SS
Now I know what to look for.SS
- Location
- Romney Marsh
@Clive
I went to my local Co op on Wednesday, having wrote a note to myself in BIG letters 'RED TRACTOR LOGO' on my to do white-board in lieu of my post & sifted carefully through the meat counter. RED TRACTOR logos on all the local meat. I was expecting it to be on the back but it is one of three stamps on the front. Great! happy SS
SS
Russel Hume and 2 Sisters used the RT logo on all their meats............ are you still confident that the meat inside the packet is what you think it was ?
suffolksmallholder
Member
- Location
- Suffolk
These are all local suppliers so yes to that. I hopeRussel Hume and 2 Sisters used the RT logo on all their meats............ are you still confident that the meat inside the packet is what you think it was ?
But we so rarely eat meat that we haven't raised ourselves.SS
michael N123
Member
I just rang NFU about house insurance and they were 4! X the cost of who I’ve gone with
Tarw Coch
Member
- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Really, posted at 8.45pm on a Saturday night and you've just rang the NFU! They work much longer hours than I realised.
michael N123
Member
No tang them last week but confirmation /quote email just came threwReally, posted at 8.45pm on a Saturday night and you've just rang the NFU! They work much longer hours than I realised.
I suspect that you actually called the NFU Mutual, they sell insurance. They are a completely separate company/organisation from the NFU. These little things are important
michael N123
Member
Still NFUI suspect that you actually called the NFU Mutual, they sell insurance. They are a completely separate company/organisation from the NFU. These little things are important
- Location
- Hertfordshire
I’m lucky enough to be married to an insurance lawyer who, for many years of her career, wrote the insurance contracts, as directed by her client, the insurer. In other words, she was responsible for drafting the ‘small print’ that hardly anyone ever reads, or understands.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from her, it’s that you get what you pay for with insurance..... I would suggest that insurance that only costs 25% of the Mutual’s quoted premium may have some pretty significant exclusions hidden away in it.
Tarw Coch
Member
- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
But they're nothing like completely separate, at least not if our local branch is representative, a group secretary who will either help you with Agricultural Matters or sell you insurance, perhaps they're doing it wrong.I suspect that you actually called the NFU Mutual, they sell insurance. They are a completely separate company/organisation from the NFU. These little things are important
tom
Member
- Location
- Lancs/Cheshire
I think michael N123 may have got a very good introductory deal, good luck to him for that but watch out for a hefty increase next year (whether it is the right policy or not I don't know but the Mutual tends to do just the opposite sometimes giving a loyalty bonus).
At the end of the day it is a mutual with no shareholders to pay and unless anyone can tell me otherwise I don't there is any discount for being a member of the Union - and certainly no better service from the Union for insuring with the Mutual.
michael N123
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
You say this but when i,recently,had a quote from the NFU Mutual,the price was subject to us becoming a NFU member.They may well be different companies but are not totally divorced.I suspect that you actually called the NFU Mutual, they sell insurance. They are a completely separate company/organisation from the NFU. These little things are important
Our NFU offices share the same staff with the mutual, the group secretaries are the insurance salesman, the insurances are discounted if you are a member, and some services they will do ( filling in bps forms) only if you are insured with them. They are inextricably linked like it or not.