Wheat imports

[AT Aloss]

The reliance on imports is nothing more than a stab in the back for British farmers who have supported the industry push towards traceability in the supply chain. I was due 3 lorries in yesterday, 1 was cancelled & the haulier was held up with 5 rejections at the ethanol plant from the Bulgarian wheat being delivered in for ADM. British farmers carried wheat into the marketing period for harvest 2024 knowing that harvest would come up short. Almost all of it would have been grown to Red Tractor & been fully traceable. They say you reap what you sow but when we're undermined by the businesses we're buying inputs from it stinks.

Poor UK harvest increases reliance on imported grains - Farmers Weekly

UK wheat production plummeted to 11.1m tonnes in 2024, a drop of 2.9m tonnes on the previous year, according to provisional estimates. This figure

www.fwi.co.uk

 

[spin cycle]

what happens to 150t of Bulgarian wheat rejected for ethanol

why would it be rejected?

 

[Pigless]

what happens to 150t of Bulgarian wheat rejected for ethanol

why would it be rejected?

Hopefully because it has no on farm assurance and they haven't filled in a mass Ballance for red assurance.

 

[AT Aloss]

what happens to 150t of Bulgarian wheat rejected for ethanol

why would it be rejected?

It was rejected for ergot & sent for colour sorting

 

[Breckland Boy]

It's quite possible upon testing they found it to be high protein, high hagberg full spec wheat with some ergot so redirected to a premium market post colour sorting.
They had bought it so can do what they like with it.
There is little or no trust left between growers, the trade and certainly none toward rt which was supposedly created to not allow this.

 

[Grass And Grain]

The reliance on imports is nothing more than a stab in the back for British farmers who have supported the industry push towards traceability in the supply chain. I was due 3 lorries in yesterday, 1 was cancelled & the haulier was held up with 5 rejections at the ethanol plant from the Bulgarian wheat being delivered in for ADM. British farmers carried wheat into the marketing period for harvest 2024 knowing that harvest would come up short. Almost all of it would have been grown to Red Tractor & been fully traceable. They say you reap what you sow but when we're undermined by the businesses we're buying inputs from it stinks.

Poor UK harvest increases reliance on imported grains - Farmers Weekly

UK wheat production plummeted to 11.1m tonnes in 2024, a drop of 2.9m tonnes on the previous year, according to provisional estimates. This figure

www.fwi.co.uk

It's a disgrace that NFU/AIC/merchants + processors have made RT mandatory, but then same merchants and processors go and buy imports. AHDB need to step up and sort it out quickly

 

[Grass And Grain]

@AT Aloss can you say which ethanol plant. Be interesting to know how this wheat passes the RED rules, and can we do similar (without us needing Red Tractor).

 

[SilliamWhale]

It was rejected for ergot & sent for colour sorting

How can they colour sort red Tractor and non red Tractor produce in the same place?

 

[AT Aloss]

How can they colour sort red Tractor and non red Tractor produce in the same place?

I'm sure anything is possible if they're shafting all their customer - the ones that buy the wheat & the ones that buy the fertiliser - they'd say "it's just business" but my own small protest is to not take calls from ADM anymore

 

[AT Aloss]

@AT Aloss can you say which ethanol plant. Be interesting to know how this wheat passes the RED rules, and can we do similar (without us needing Red Tractor).

Sedamyl

 

[Clive]

The reliance on imports is nothing more than a stab in the back for British farmers who have supported the industry push towards traceability in the supply chain. I was due 3 lorries in yesterday, 1 was cancelled & the haulier was held up with 5 rejections at the ethanol plant from the Bulgarian wheat being delivered in for ADM. British farmers carried wheat into the marketing period for harvest 2024 knowing that harvest would come up short. Almost all of it would have been grown to Red Tractor & been fully traceable. They say you reap what you sow but when we're undermined by the businesses we're buying inputs from it stinks.

Poor UK harvest increases reliance on imported grains - Farmers Weekly

UK wheat production plummeted to 11.1m tonnes in 2024, a drop of 2.9m tonnes on the previous year, according to provisional estimates. This figure

www.fwi.co.uk

Assurance is an utter nonsense - why wasn’t the Bulgarian wheat rejected at the port ? will it get sent back to Bulgaria ? ………

time this nonsense was ended

 

[Clive]

@AT Aloss can you say which ethanol plant. Be interesting to know how this wheat passes the RED rules, and can we do similar (without us needing Red Tractor).

i think it magically passed on the basis it’s cheaper

who cares how it’s grown, stored, what uk banned products may have been used to produce it ………. as long as it’s cheap !

frankly to get rejected from a none food use it must be utter shite

 

[glasshouse]

Time fora trip to the docks on bonfire night

 

[AT Aloss]

Time fora trip to the docks on bonfire night

Depending on the fallout from the budget it might be time to go full on Farmers For Action like David Handley in September 2000, it brought the country to a standstill. But to do that we need the hauliers & a very strong case for reversing any fuel duty hikes (amongst other issues) which are going to be very painful for anyone in food & farming production & distribution.

The downside to any protest like that (if you have a healthy dose of scepticism) is what the Governemnt would do as revenge. In 2001 Foot & Mouth wiped out legacy livestock bloodlines throughout the North, did it come from Pirbright originally (the next outbreak did). I suppose we'll never know...

 

[Rnold]

Was this wheat even Bulgarian or did it come from further to the east? We shall never know.

 

[AT Aloss]

Was this wheat even Bulgarian or did it come from further to the east? We shall never know.

Should think most Polish & Bulgarian origin hops over a border to get there

 

[thorpe]

we are just pricing pricing up british wheat distillers, but is it from british wheat?

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

my own small protest is to not take calls from ADM anymore

Sedamyl

I was told yesterday (by someone who would know) that ADM are landing two big boats between now & Christmas, just to cover what Sedamyl needs.

 

[AT Aloss]

I was told yesterday (by someone who would know) that ADM are landing two big boats between now & Christmas, just to cover what Sedamyl needs.

Rules of engagement:

1. When they call asking if you've got anything to sell, say no & sell it to their competition.
2. When they call asking if you want to buy any fertiliser or seed the answer is obviously no & buy it from their competition.
3. Tell your buying group not to deliver any products from them.

I followed these steps with Frontier a few years ago & they didn't even notice I'd disappeared, but I felt better!

 

[Hay Maker]

How can they colour sort red Tractor and non red Tractor produce in the same place?

Because they can if they want to & will be trade assured when leaving the plant.