Red Tractor assurance is seeking grower input for its latest work on efficiency and cutting down unnecessary duplication.
It has written to its grower members asking if they would like to participate in the Phase 1 trial of its assessment efficiency work. The focus of the trial will be the introduction of a new online portal that has been developed to allow the grower to upload documentation required by the Red Tractor assessment, for the assessor to review prior to arrival on farm.
“Our project is intended to help us explore whether there are more efficient ways of carrying out a farm assessment,' explained Anita Roberts, Red Tractor’s head of assurance.
She added: 'The portal will allow information and documentation to be uploaded prior to an assessment and therefore hopefully reduce the time the assessor needs to spend on farm reviewing paperwork, allowing more time to be spent outside looking at the growing operations.”
The portal has been developed by Leicester based company Qadex. The firm’s Stephen Whyte said: “We have lots of great ideas on how we can use our technology to help the process further. We can provide links to other industry databases for information, links to training and document templates as well as build in some e-mail reminders to growers when specific tasks needs completing.”
Growers who want to take part in the trial need to contact Red Tractor before 30 April on the email address:produce@redtractor.org.uk
