AHDB Looking for new board members

[7610 super q]

Now all those that have been vocal about how AHDB need to change start with the excuses.
Haven't got the time,
I can earn more doing other things
Blah blah blah.


Step up and make a difference!

Showaddywaddy are shite, but I don't feel the need to join the group to try and change their music.

 

[Hindsight]

We have fixed the problem we got rid of them

HM Government Cabinet Office doesn't seem to have picked up your memo WR.

 

[Hindsight]

Showaddywaddy are shite, but I don't feel the need to join the group to try and change their music.

But you are not forced to pay to listen to them whether you want to or not!?

 

[Raider112]

Showaddywaddy are shite, but I don't feel the need to join the group to try and change their music.

Nowt wrong with Showaddywaddy, now Buck's fizz!!!

 

[manhill]

Is that 6 new positions of have 6 jumped ship?

 

[SteveHants]

Is that 6 new positions of have 6 jumped ship?

Seems like board members are on a three year rotation, so they will be new members.

 

[stroller]

No doubt it will be someone from the ' circuit' of rt, nfu etc

 

[Suffolk Serf]

i get a lot of people thanking me for saying things / asking awkward questions they think but are often not confident enough to say themselves

That rarely endears to the establishment however who generally love the status quo of “as little change as possible please ”. “don’t upset xxx, hes a jolly nice chap don’t you know”

i’m ALL about change and no industry needs it more than UK agriculture IMO

That’s excellent news.
I think/hope that you might be pleasantly surprised.
I know at least two of the pigs board members well and they definitely aren’t establishment shoe ins that toe the line and have never been known to not say exactly what they think.
I hope that might be the same for Cereals and Oilseeds- but maybe not!

 

[White rabbit]

HM Government Cabinet Office doesn't seem to have picked up your memo WR.

I think they have hindsight time has been booked in parliament for October so the chopping block is in sight

 

[SteveHants]

That’s excellent news.
I think/hope that you might be pleasantly surprised.
I know at least two of the pigs board members well and they definitely aren’t establishment shoe ins that toe the line and have never been known to not say exactly what they think.
I hope that might be the same for Cereals and Oilseeds- but maybe not!

I have a feeling that I know one of the pig people, at least he mentioned he was doing something for AHDB pork a while back.....

 

[Martyn]

I'm looking at applying just waiting for more information to come back from request and feed back from staff helping on farm about if they are happy to cover my absence.

 

[MrNoo]

Do you have to have held a position at RT to qualify or is that hidden away in the small print?

 

[Tarw Coch]

We have fixed the problem we got rid of them

They ain’t gone yet

 

[Sid]

WALOB. I don't have to be football manager material to have the right to criticise my teams manager. I don't have to be author material to have the right to criticise a book. Paying my hard earned money gives me a mandate to criticise where necessary.

WTF are you on about ?

You have said there that I have the right to criticise, then in your next sentence said that to criticise and not apply is a cop out. Make your mind up

It was the excuses of not enough renumeration or time.

If your passionate about something do it.

As the old adages go
If you want something done do it yourself
Or
If you want a job done ask a busy person.

 

[delilah]

It was the excuses of not enough renumeration or time.

If your passionate about something do it.

As the old adages go
If you want something done do it yourself
Or
If you want a job done ask a busy person.

You don't want the gobsh!tes on a committee. You want the calm, reasoned people on a committee.

The trick - the only thing that matters - is for those calm, reasoned people to listen to the gobsh!tes, and to translate what they are saying into committee speak and to get it passed into policy.

That is where this industry is getting it wrong. Those on committees seeing people with opinions as being trouble. They aren't the trouble, the trouble is the 90% who just pay their subs for the deals and make no input to the future of the industry.

 

[Tim W]

It was the excuses of not enough renumeration or time.

If your passionate about something do it.

As the old adages go
If you want something done do it yourself
Or
If you want a job done ask a busy person.

The people i know who serve on these positions make time to do it
They usually run a farm at the same time ----they just get on with it

 

[Tim W]

And for anyone that think it sounds like easy money it's not!
Every paid day will have at least a solid day's researching beforehand and many evenings throughout the year background reading in preparation

 

[Sid]

The people i know who serve on these positions make time to do it
They usually run a farm at the same time ----they just get on with it

Some make time to go on many!

And for anyone that think it sounds like easy money it's not!
Every paid day will have at least a solid day's researching beforehand and many evenings throughout the year background reading in preparation

Absolutely.

Spending an afternoon going through data and researching items on the agenda

 

[delilah]

Some make time to go on many!


Absolutely.

Spending an afternoon going through data and researching items on the agenda

You do realise, don't you, that you are making my point for me. Committee member willy waving.

The only decent committee members are the same as the only decent MP's. Those who recognise that they are there not to get their views across, but to get the views of their constituents across.

 

[Sid]

You do realise, don't you, that you are making my point for me. Committee member willy waving

Where did you make that point earlier?

Didn't see that, do quote the post where you said that.