Tacon named new chairman of Red Tractor scheme >More in Former groceries code adjudicator Christine Tacon has been appointed as the new head of Red Tractor. Ms Tacon has been named as the chairman of Assured Food Standards (ASF), the company that operates the Red Tractor Assurance scheme. She will take up the role on 1 January 2021, replacing Dame Lucy Neville-Rolfe, whose term ended last month. The announcement came days after Farmers Weekly exclusively revealed that, as a Conservative peer, she voted against amendments in the Agriculture Bill tabled to protect British farmers from imports produced to standards not permitted in the UK. Her actions sparked a huge backlash among farmers.