Jiglu: Farmtalking: Discussion: Re: RE; Britsish Cattle Movement system

Originally from: gee

I suggest that you read pages 8 and 9 of the Cattle keepers handbook, page nine in particular that deals with reasons that will be accepted for a late application and those that will not.
Both of these sections deal with your reasons.
Easter is not an "Unusual postal delay"
"Being too busy with other farm work" is not a reasonable excuse to fail to comply with the rules.
There has been no maladministration.
The point I am making is that a large proportion of the errors that exist within BCMS are due to inaccurate data supplied by individuals who have a "that'll do attitude" compounded by individuals such as your self who refuse to co-operate for their own reasons.
Massaging your own ego with hints of dark demons that only you and a select band of others have seen and expecting the world at large to fall in line behind you improves nothing.
You may wish to pursue your dreams but please do not do it at the expense of other perfectly legitimate and honest agricultural business people.
I hope the "Family income supplement benefit system is not as corrupt as BCMS and that you manage to get the form posted on time to meet the deadline......but I suppose you will won't you...
Gee

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Subject: Re: [farmtalking] RE; Britsish Cattle Movement system
For Gee –
You obviously hold a rigid mindset over the BCMS issue and appear to be
incapable of reading what i am actually saying here.
I reiterate for the last time that I did send in my last batch of calf
passports on time ,and that the post had delayed the delivery by five
days – also
admitted by BCMS themselves.
I will also reiterate for the last time , that, like you, I do support the
basic set up of calf passports and have no intention of disrupting this
system
by my actions. My issue is with the maladministration of this system by
some of
its officials and their intransigent position that they have adopted
towards
resolving some of its problems – most especially the working towards the
most
appropriate form of penalty for late applications. No one in their right
mind
could agree on a penalty which ends up depriving the community of a supply
of
food. The offender should recieve the punishment, not the global
community.
Why is the farmer who registers 1000 calves a year so much more
'professional' in the mind of Gee than the farmer who only registers 35.
The obvious
difference is that the famer who is registering 1000 calves a year is
going to
employ labour – probably a farm secretary – who will take care of all of
the
bureaucratic work without ever being required to go outside and get their
hands
mucky.
Put yourself in a day of my life and you would find yourself needing about
three bodies to cope with the seven days a week of working to keep my show
on
the road. Apart from having eight demanding children to bring up ( most of
them
teenagers who need taxiing around ) , over recent weeks I have been
running
the farm single handedly ( milking twice daily / organising TB testing /
pulling
turnips ), building an extension bedroom onto my barn conversion,
refurbishing the milking parlour, building a further cattle yard,
writing / editing and
peer reviewing my own and other people's medical journal articles, writing
a
book, delivering visiting lectures at various Uni departments, organising
the
microprobe analysis of my samples, applying for a patent, carrying out a
field study in Sicily, filling out single farm payment forms, filling out
research
grant applications, filling out family income supplement benefit
forms.......... and now organising a court case to achieve my legal right
to a cattle
passport etc. Much that I like doing things and running a full life, I do
not
particularly like having to waste my time with the petty bureaucratic
wrangles
over the passport of one calf .
Best,
mark
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