Producers

Have you thought about what you could gain by joining the 78,000 farmers that are part of the Red Tractor alliance?

Red Tractor-assured foods are popular with millions of consumers, and there is increasing demand for Red Tractor products and ingredients from retailers, food companies and food service businesses.

By joining a Red Tractor assurance scheme you may add to the interest that your products attract from the next link in the supply chain. Membership of the Red Tractor alliance will also give you due credit on food labels for the care and attention you have invested in achieving our exacting standards. This can translate into healthier sales in the longer term as conscientious consumers increasingly look for our logo as a mark of quality products that are traceable to the farms where they were produced.

Food on which the Red Tractor appears must come from an assured production chain in which producers, processors and packers meet our standards every critical step of the way. These standards primarily deal with the safety of the food but they also cover animal welfare on the farm and reducing the environmental impact of agriculture. Producers and processors must be inspected by independent certification bodies to ensure that the standards are met.

The Red Tractor logo can be used on assured beef, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey, dairy products, cereals and oilseeds, sugar, vegetables, salad and fruit. The logo can only be used on packing or at point of sale by businesses licensed by Assured Food Standards.

To read about our standards in detail.
To find out more about joining a farm assurance scheme
To apply for a Red Tractor licence
To renew an existing licence

‘Being a member of the scheme helps us to produce crops to the high standards our customers and shoppers require. It has also proved a good format for formalising all the record keeping for machinery, grain storage and crop protection. All the main crop buyers in the UK specify assured crops because of the confidence it gives them that crops have has been produced to high standards’

Jonathan Tipples, Red Court Farm, Kent

"With the Red Tractor now to be found on more than 5,000 different foods, it’s a fantastic tool for farmers when we’re talking to the public about how their food is produced. The logo is now synonymous with quality home-produced food that guarantees high animal welfare and environmental standards, so it’s great to be able simply to tell people to look out for the Red Tractor and help support our farmers"

Rosey Dunn, beef/sheep and arable farmer, North Carlton Farm, Yorkshire

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Producers

Have you thought about what you could gain by joining the 78,000 farmers that are part of the Red Tractor alliance?