I don't like flying
Hi it’s Colin, half past six on Thursday morning.
Me and Doris out again this morning (good to be back). Had an eventful journey back from Italy last night—the plane was about Two hours late, so it was past midnight by the time I got home…
We had a successful trip, got our contract sorted out and made some good progress on the new project with the edible Soya. So All in all, that was good.
A friend of mine had a read of this blog last night and he reckons there’s a little bit of confusion about who’s who, so I want to put that straight.
We have two operations producing peas in the UK—one in Hull, and one in Lowestoft. My position is that I’m the head of agricultural for Birdseye, so I look after the whole lot. James is the agricultural manager of the Hull factory so his comments really relate to that operation. We have another agricultural manager, Andrew, who is agricultural manager for the facility in Lowestoft. I’ll make sure we introduce you to him in due time.
We have a potentially interesting day today—we’ve got some consultants coming in to do what we call a value chain analysis. They’ll be out in the field with us looking looking at the harvest operation. It’s all part of our continuous improvement programme both in terms of quality and indeed cost (which is always an important feature).
I’ll see if I can get some decent photos when we’re out in the field, and we’ll keep you informed.
Bye for now.
