Meeting Standards
Why does it matter?
Red Tractor was founded in 2000 to restore trust in British food. Today, it’s the UK’s most trusted food assurance scheme, ensuring that food and drink is safe, responsibly produced, and meets rigorous standards.
The power of meeting the standards
Meeting Red Tractor standards protects your business, enhances industry integrity, and ensures access to top UK retailers. Poor compliance can damage reputations, increase costs, and impact financial performance of your business.
Member benefits
- Access to major UK supermarkets
- Recognition for high-quality, responsibly produced food
- Compliance with legal requirements in one simple process
Stay compliant. Stay assured. Stay ahead.
Our scheme governance arrangements are designed to ensure that we and our members conduct ourselves in line with the law, our membership rules and our standards. We publish the number of members who have had their certification either suspended or revoked.
Around 48,000 farmers are Red Tractor members across the different sectors. While the exact number of Red Tractor members changes each day there are approximately:
Compliance Reports
| Certificate Status | Number of Members | |
| Oct – Dec 2025 | Suspended | 533 |
| Revoked | 28 |
| Certificate Status | Number of Members | |
| Jul – Sep 2025 | Suspended | 687 |
| Revoked | 56 |
| Certificate Status | Number of Members | |
| Apr – Jun 2025 | Suspended | 718 |
| Revoked | 69 |
| Certificate Status | Number of Members | |
| Jan – Mar 2025 | Suspended | 779 |
| Revoked | 53 |
Red Tractor Standards
