Red Tractor Farm Assurance

Red Tractor Beef and Lamb scheme provides both consumers and retailers with confidence about product quality attributes including food safety, animal welfare and environmental protection. The assessment covers areas such as animal health, veterinary medicines used, waste management, housing space allowance and vermin control.

SAI Global is uniquely placed to provide end-to-end assurance for all farm enterprises, including dairy.

Membership to the RTFA Dairy Scheme demonstrates compliance with the standard throughout the process of farm milk production, from hygiene and food safety, through housing and facilities plant and equipment to herd health, animal welfare and stockmanship.

SAI Global has a team of experienced inspectors with specific expertise in the dairy industry. Their technical expertise also comes from SAI Global links with Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association, ensuring that the company is well placed to certify against the Standards

Red Tractor Poultry drives continuing improvements in food safety and animal welfare standards in chicken, turkey and duck production and covers the whole life of the bird up to the point of processing.

Red Tractor Fresh Produce includes protocols for an array of fresh produce crops including fruit, vegetables and salad crops. These protocols are publicly available and are used as a guide to safe food production for the agricultural industry within the United Kingdom and around the globe.

Red Tractor Livestock Transport focuses on ensuring the traceability of animals continues from the farm gate and that animal welfare is maintained during the journey and all vehicles are cleaned.

This Red Tractor scheme sets out Standards of best practice for livestock market and collection centre operators and is an integral link in the Assurance chain for livestock. The standard focuses on ensuring that the traceability of the animals continues and that animal welfare is maintained throughout the duration of the market or collection centre.

The Red Tractor Safe Haven scheme comprises scientifically robust protocols that ensure best practice for seed growing. The Safe Haven scheme also provides additional protection against other harmful organisms like brown rot and soft rots caused by Dickeya species. The scheme ensures that all seed within the scheme is only grown from Safe Haven-sourced seed or disease-free nuclear stock and this helps protect against any pests and diseases not found in Britain which affect potatoes.

The Red Tractor Cold Crush Oilseed Standards are for the on-farm cold crush processing of oilseeds into meal, ensuring standards of feed safety that reflect the importance of feed ingredients within the food chain and the need to meet contractual and legal obligations.