Course overview
Options for farmers:
In readiness, farmers have four options, all designed to ensure biosecurity and food safety, to be ready for using “stewardship label” rodenticides on their premises:
Possession of a certificate from an approved training programme and awarding organisation confirming professional competence.
Employment of a professional pest control contractor, which employs technicians themselves in possession of such approved certificates.
Membership of a UK farm assurance scheme which has among its standards a structured, documented and audited programme of rodenticide pest management. Click http://www.thinkwildlife.org/first-batch-of-farm-assurance-schemes-approved-for-uk-rodenticide-stewardship-compliance/for an up-to-date list of acceptable farm assurance schemes.
Please note that this is an interim measure, which will cease after December 2017 – unless the farm assurance schemes in question bring their standards fully in line with the CRRU Code of Best Practice.
The current schemes are:
Red Tractor Farm Assurance – Beef and Lamb, Dairy, Crops, Fresh Produce, Pigs, Poultry
Quality Meat Scotland – Cattle & Sheep, Pigs
Farm Assured Welsh Livestock – Beef & Lamb
Scottish Quality Crops
Northern lreland Farm Quality Assurance Scheme – Beef and Lamb, Cereals
British Egg Industry Council: Code of Practice for Lion Eggs
Duck Assurance Scheme (Breeder replacement, Breeder layers, Hatcheries, Table birds, Free-range table birds)
Agricultural Industries Confederation (Compound feeds, Combinable crops and Animal feeds)
The purchase and use of amateur rodenticide products (which refers to pack sizes of up to 1.5kg.)
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