Thank you for your interest in RAMSAK. This information provides only the barest details about what we do, but it will help to answer some of your questions. Although farmers have always been good neighbours to one another, the idea of a co-operative to help farmers share resources has only emerged more recently. This is in some part due to better communications, but the 'ring' movement in the UK was driven by a feeling of the uncertainties that lay in the future of agriculture. In the late eighties, groups of farmers all over the country were setting up self help organisations that today we call 'machinery rings'. Farmers are still helping each other, but now this is done on a commercial basis, with payments instead of favours.

RAMSAK covers the counties of Kent, East and West Sussex, and Eastern Surrey. The rings computer system presents the works co-ordinator with data starting with the nearest supplier. Using this system minimises travelling time and is the fairest and most effective way to apportion work.

Although the core business will always be centred around improved utilisation of farm machinery and skilled labour, many rings are diversifying into other areas. In this web-site you will see many of the services that RAMSAK have on offer.