Day 36 - We got special mention:-)
Hi, it’s Colin, got back from London OK and just about sobered up;-) It was a excellent do—saw a lot my old friends anyway—but now it’s back to reality!
We had bit of bad luck last night up in the north of the operation where one of the electricity substations was struck by lightning which put that out of action, which wasn’t particularly helpful. Particularly at a time when we’re under pressure because of the warm weather and the maturity of the crops and in fact, I think down in the south here in Lowestoft where yield is maintaining a good avererage-to-reasonable level and quality OK given the circumstances it looks like we may well finish this weekend because of the rapid way the things are moving because of the hot weather and complete absense of any significant rain for quite some time.
Anyway, the other things of interest: I think I mentioned that we were having our ISO 9001 quality-management system re-accredited through an audit by Lloyds quality register. I’m delighted to say we came through that with flying colours. Particularly the agricultural operation which got special mention, which was good.
And of course, turning our attention to this week were we’ve got our ISO 14001 audit for accreditation. This is for our environmental management systems for agricultural production, and this is the way we hope to get credible endorsement for what we’re doing in sustainable agriculture.
What I’ll do this week is use sustainable agriculture as the theme and explain what we’re doing in that. if you want to following this and see what we do in some detail, visit www.growingforthefuture.com where there is a full explanation of the sustainable development programme we have in Birds Eye.
But anyway, I’ll keep you advised as we go through the week.
