From the CEO
A truly independent review
Welcome to your Winter 2023 edition of Member Matters, in which we explore some of the benefits of your Red Tractor membership and take you behind the scenes of how, when activists strike, we defend farms that comply with our core standards.
I want to start with brief comments regarding the NFU's review of Red Tractor Governance. Despite what you may have read in the agricultural press, the review is truly independent and my thanks to Minette Batters (NFU President) for emphasising that in her own recent comments.
The NFU has commissioned the review and the scope and remit has been agreed with Red Tractor's owners. Those owners are: the NFU, the farming unions of Ulster and Scotland, AHDB, Dairy UK and the British Retail Consortium.
So, Red Tractor is the subject of the review, not the designer... or the owner!
At the end of October, Red Tractor confirmed our complete support for the Governance Review and our commitment to cooperating fully to ensure openness and pace.
Since then the NFU has appointed consultants Campbell Tickell to complete the review. Campbell Tickell are a management consultancy, specialising in governance, and advising charitable, not-for-profit and public sector organisations.
Campbell Tickell's work has already started and the NFU has said that the emerging findings will be presented to NFU Council at the end of January. The final report should be made available in mid-February. Clearly, we will keep you updated once these findings are available.
In the meantime, it is Christmas next week! Let me take this opportunity to wish you and your families a happy holiday season.
Best Wishes,
Jim Moseley
Red Tractor Chief Executive
