Recent content by AHDB

Answered at live event Dairy: Funding Your Future - YouTube (38:10) Well, ADHB has been probably the most outspoken organisation in the industry. Because 2 years ago and again last year we asked for a review of red tractor because we think a lot of what it does it does very well. But we don’t...

When reviewing a recommendation from AHDB, Defra (and the Welsh and Scottish Governments) will look for evidence of levy payer and stakeholder views.

Answered at live event Dairy: Funding Your Future - YouTube (47:26) Well, it’s how the statutory instrument was set up. So the minister has the decision, that’s what was laid down in law when it was set up originally. But the minister has said we want to know, before we go out and say this...

Answered at live event Dairy: Funding Your Future - YouTube (44:55) We do loads of stuff that individual companies don’t do. So the marketing campaign....Arla and Muller will be focusing on their individual campaigns for their own brands for that. Pulling together people on exports and going to...

Why are our prices freely available? We produce price information so that there is a base level of transparency in the marketplace. Without this, there is a risk of market failure from an asymmetry of information – where one party has an unfair advantage over another due to what they know. The...

With this area we need to make a judgement on whether there’s market failure – for example Kite, Kingshay and Promar do cost of production analysis. If we were to proceed, we also need to judge if the cost of buying in farm datasets to analyse is good value for levy money. We’re currently...

Answered at live event Dairy: Funding Your Future - YouTube (43:52) I’m very happy to say that the semen companies this year, we’ve gone and spoken to them all because I completely agree (with the question), and they are now paying an increasing share of that budget. This is the first time that...

No. Our Dairy KE team are focused on 3 areas: Environment, Animal Health and Welfare and Genetics, All of which underpin the industry’s reputation. Our Strategic Dairy Farm network (which is joint funded by the Betty Lawes Foundation) aims to provide a ‘shop window’ for AHDB throughout Scotland...

If AHDB collected all levies direct from every farmer, buyer or processor then we would hold the details of all our levy payers. The fact is the vast majority of AHDB levy payers have their levy collected via a third party - it is deducted by the buyer or processor who holds it and then pays it...

The Sector council are there as representatives of levy payers. On an ongoing basis, Sector Council members (and AHDB staff) seek feedback from levy payers

Answered at live event Dairy: Funding Your Future - YouTube (42:39) Well, firstly, we are absolutely not funding an AHDB savings account. The sector council comes together once a year to review the budget and where it’s going to be spent. So that’s 10 farmers from around the country and myself...

The levy rate ceilings are written into the legislation that governs AHDB to help protect levy payers. If levy payers wanted an increase in excess of the existing ceiling, then the legislation would need to be changed. The process for a legislative change requires a Defra (with Scottish and...

We are already working on an independent international comparison study of competitor beef and lamb standards and announced a similar study within the Cereals & Oilseeds sector in October. While it’s not our role to unliterally decide farm standards, we will contribute with independent evidence...

We are already working on an independent international comparison study of competitor beef and lamb standards and announced a similar study within the Cereals & Oilseeds sector in October. While it’s not our role to unliterally decide farm standards, we will contribute with independent evidence...

Answered at live event Dairy: Funding Your Future - YouTube (38:10) Well, ADHB has been probably the most outspoken organisation in the industry. Because 2 years ago and again last year we asked for a review of red tractor because we think a lot of what it does it does very well. But we don’t...