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  1. Doc

    AHDB announce Ministers have approved levy increase

    If you want successful marketing you need to employ a private advertising firm. I have not seen a decent marketing campaign run by the AHDB but rather the opposite.
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    Australian livestock Industry Price Collapse

    Indo situation is all politics.
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    Haylage wrapping question

    Clostridia are anaerobic and the exotoxin is the bad bit. It’s moulds that tend to spoil bales in presence of oxygen. Listeria are more complicated. Any Vet knows this. Agree more to this story.
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    This is why AHDB should fix the grain assurance level playing field

    It’s not impossible. It just needs numbers of refuseniks. That was my original point. Ironically the more ‘foreign’ stuff used the greater the premium would be for ‘genuine GB provenance’. The audit systems would be reversed.
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    This is why AHDB should fix the grain assurance level playing field

    I should add this is only a second income for me. Perhaps that gives me either more immunity or clarity?
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    This is why AHDB should fix the grain assurance level playing field

    I used to be FA 5 years ago- beef and lamb. Stopped because it made no difference to store cattle or fat lambs. Took some non FA lambs in on Monday. Topped the market for Texel x heavies. Go figure.
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    This is why AHDB should fix the grain assurance level playing field

    Once again the echo chamber. The answer is simple. Boycott en masse. They politicked to get you in, so politick to get yourselves out. If you can’t get enough momentum of interested parties then it answers the question.
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    Fields disappearing down the drain... Litterally.

    We too have this especially over stone constructed drains. I think it’s a symptom of heavier and bigger machinery collapsing the tops and the water then does the rest. Plastic and plenty of stone seems the only affordable solution here as they are almost impossible to repair to as they were.
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    AHDB "aren't allowed" to promote British food

    Every run up to Australia Day-Jan 26th. This goes on TV. https://www.mla.com.au/marketing-beef-and-lamb/domestic-marketing/lamb-campaigns/
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    Australian beef coming this way doesn't matter

    Would have to be brown. See below. Failed already.
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    Australian beef coming this way doesn't matter

    https://www.mla.com.au/prices-markets/cattle/eycireport/
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    Australian beef coming this way doesn't matter

    This is still relatively new and is all about capturing the US grass fed beef market which requires economies of scale, marketing product and story.
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    Anyone from AHDB care to comment please?

    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-regenerative-journey-with-charlie-arnott/id1508479507?i=1000586995288 Walter Jehne is excellent in explaining the whole Carbon charade.
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    Australian beef coming this way doesn't matter

    barstewards are even nicking your product descriptions 😆 https://hbpastoral.com.au/
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    Local abattoir campaign

    Private eye has been looking at the Elville and Jones monopoly for OVs for some time. They supply ALL abattoir Vets as I understand.
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    £700 for feeding your livestock on Boxing Day

    Stop tomorrow. Bet everyone still eats. I don’t think anyone buys that argument. Anyway, thought the point needed to be made that most of us have it pretty easy compared to some. Have a good Xmas everyone.👍
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    £700 for feeding your livestock on Boxing Day

    Exactly. Lucky to have the choice. Sell up, bank the proceeds and go tube train driving instead? You won’t though because you love it and know you are a lucky barsteward. So it’s not really a hardship and you have been well paid for it to boot. You don’t feed anyone. The shops do. You sell a...
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    £700 for feeding your livestock on Boxing Day

    It’s only a little bother, which is my point.
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    £700 for feeding your livestock on Boxing Day

    Commuting into London then Driving a tube train full of passengers is no where near comparable to dropping some bales just out of your back door via a loader tractor, a mixer wagon or blobbing some sheep nuts on the ground. If it is, you are doing it all wrong. There are literally 1,000’s of...
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    LRQA to withdraw from Red Tractor assurance

    I disagree with the threat ‘well the supermarkets will just dream up their own’ argument. They will just provide what sounds good at least cost. They know that no one really cares about RT but at the moment it’s free to them, so why not jump on the bandwagon. RT demise may lead to cost based...
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