Recent content by Gudgeon

................ depending on your local council. Mine categorically refused the use of domestic bins for what he claimed as "business waste" (having explicitly allowed it 3 years ago). If you can't use the domestic route, then find your nearest fallen stock man (any livestock farmer or the...

Final thing from me on this. Fallen stock man wants £30 per collection irrespective of weight (seems good to me). EHO man goes away for 2 1/2 years. I just have to run an extra freezer to store my waste. Not the worst outcome. Anyway back below the radar for a while.

I do understand all of that. I'm between a rock and a hard place though. The regulations say my small scale retail ABP3 can go to landfill. Council says yes but not in our household bin collections. If I tried to take it myself I'd need a waste carrier licence and when I get to the local tip...

Thanks Tim for adding to the debate. I've already had a response from the EHO effectively ignoring the regulations and saying it is more about how the waste is transferred and using household collections for business waste means households are subsidising businesses. I haven't got time to argue...

Thanks guys. I will ask my EHO why I can't rely on EC1069. Thanks @wytonpjs I knew there was a reason I was religiously recording the weight of my waste! Apparently Great Yarmouth borough are targeting all food businesses and insisting they have a waste management contract even businesses...

Hi, England based registered food business processing 30-40 deer p.a. At my EHO review today he said they were clamping down on businesses using domestic bins to dispose of their waste and that I needed to get something formal in place. So I'm looking for a cost effective means of doing so and...

I see from the news that the SFI scheme is now closed, so I hope he already had his application in. There doesn't seem to be anything that the current government won't do to stick the boot in on the farmer.

Many thanks for all the info, feel a bit happier about it now. I think I'm getting Oakbank Game Mix 416 (Tritical, cereals, sorghum, millet) and Kings Campaign Mix which looks similar but is for a specific bit of ground. Apparently will be drilled on a wider setting to help the birds get around...

Hi all, I've not long had a small farm shoot, 30 bird days for the boss and a few days for friends etc. The farm has had a shoot intermittently for ever. Farmer tells me this week that 3 areas of maize cover are being replaced with SFI cover because he needs the money! Any experience with wild...

Who knows!! You take the advice they give and hope it works out. I can't find anything definitive either way online. I sell most things per cut - loins, sausages, burgers, steaks, joints. But do put a weight on the label and use a 'stamped' set of scales to do that. When I questioned my TS man...

The Trading Standards man who accompanied the EHO on my inspection said if you sell meat you must put the weight on label (even if selling by cut) and you had to use certified scales. P.S. I know nothing of barcodes!

That's brilliant. Many thanks

Hi, is there a source I can refer to reference re-freezing? I do exactly this freezing down my trim and then making sausages in bulk, but I'd like to document the process in my HACCP. Many thanks

Yes please, I've messaged you. Thanks

One of my examples certainly came from there!! Mine now goes from the field right through to sausages - in no small part due to pictures of your larder! Good examples of forum helping stalkers out.