Tracing Food...Who Pays?

[parsley]

1. bduke,
Presently it's a required practice in my world that sampling is routinely done while loading. And recorded. And samples stored.(Malt barley growers cannot afford to do otherwise?)

2. bduke,
Presently, it's a required practice in my world that truckers sign statements their trucks are clean and free from contaminants on the same sampling statement.


3. sid,
Every sample? No. Whatever for? Verification on a sample would only occur if there was suspicion there was tampering (smell, for instance), or if there was a suspicion of mischief/criminal activity etc. It's what you would normally do, wouldn't you, if some dog's breakfast came in with a load you would let your cat dig in?

I think we need to get away from "this has never been done" to "This is how it can best be done" and then decide who pays what.

The PROCESS WILL DETERMINE THE COST...hence, the importance of farmer participation.

sid, just as I took someone for a ride this morning on the Rhino, driving with such abandon that they would agree to most anything,lol, so should farmers take a run on the traceability process for a wreckless ride. The spelling, fransisco. is not an error.

Parsley

[bduke]

Parsley....I use sample and seal bags when loading some crops. I normally check the trailers as well. I like your process of having the truck driver sign off....although there are various opinions of clean....Bill

[parsley]

I am interested in facilitating sales.

If a reasonable process is put in place, he who signs on the dotted line must follow the process, and business flows, but if he does not, there are legal regulatory repercusiions.

That is the stumbling block right now.


In Canada, governments have assumed the majority of regulatory duties, but much like the financial regulatory bodies, which are supposed to classify, grade, guard, step down on, fine/ disallow, etc., they simply close their eyes.

If a farmer or elevator or trucker etc. get footloose with their responsibilities, all you need is the regulatory body to step down mean and hard. Applying legal and financial repercusiions IS a deterrant. What deterrant did the CGC get for deer poop? A raise in pay, most likely..

Mean, bduke.


When I say, ALL players in the sequence, I mean ALL.Regulators, too.

Too many farmers sitting on a lot of Boards are there so they can dress up in a tie once a month. They are frightened by hard decisions.


There are hardly ever ANY repercussions, not even public apologies forthcoming, or withdrawal. or resual, suggested from the representatives supposedly speaking for farmers.

They don't want to deal with enforcement, so they muddy the waters with "what-ifs". Self servers only want to talk about MORE PROCESS. Expanding it. And thereby bogging down facilitating commerce.

Never about enforcing the existing process.

Dija notice?

Parsley