AHDB chief executive to step down
Jane King will leave her role no later than September 2021www.fginsight.com
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- Thread starter White rabbit
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White rabbit
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Thank god for that ,let’s hope she takes the rest of the comedIans with her.AHDB chief executive to step down
Jane King will leave her role no later than September 2021
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- Hayling Island
Its very good news that the potato sector will have a go at triggering a ballot. I am shore there will be plenty of support our money was never intended to be used for AHDB propaganda adverts telling us they are changing their ways.
White rabbit
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Well highland mule has usual you are right again ,they have started wheeling out the big guns ,they are really pushing to make sure levy payers who have fell behind with their payments even the ones who have made a part payment will be denied a vote.They have now managed to secure the services of Defra lawyers it looks like they are going to steam roll their way through this, of course they can still play the ace card of levy payers who do not care either way and don’t vote will count as a yes vote.I see they are bringing in more ex Nfu staff to be given a job then told to go home ,I don’t know how we will make decisions on the farm with the 600 ahdb staff sat at home ,I am at wits end not being able to access their help.
White rabbit
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Simon W the ballot papers will be going out first thing Monday ,there will 500 in the first batch and another 500 to follow.
White rabbit
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Good article bio-waste spreader ,never thought I would get in private eye they will be wanting me to go on have I got news for you soon.
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- Lincolnshire
Yes, just read this. 1/3 of levy in salaries. What a disgrace.
White rabbit
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That quote is not quite correct teslacoils ,it’s worse than that ,£27 million in salaries out of £68 million it more like 40%.
White rabbit
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The average income for a farmer is ÂŁ25,000 what are we doing, also what figure will that be when bps ends.
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- Derbyshire
We have advertised for voluntary workers here but it never works - we always have to pay them
. I've even had some that ask for time off... cheeky buggers.
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- Scottish Highlands
Given that AHDB supplies intellectual property to its customers/ levy payers, what else would you think they spent the levy on? Some on physical tests and trials, yes, and some on physical equipment and office space, but most is surely going on employing the brains that generate that information. Now, some may feel that they already know everything there is to know about growing vegetable, but...
White rabbit
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Obviously there must be a lot growers who disagree or we would not be getting so many disgruntled comments coming in, there is only a few growers doing large scale veg now so if you are not on top of your game you are soon out of business, these people would go into meltdown if they ran their own business, could you imagine like this morning when I walked into the farmyard and 120 workers want their orders what somebody from ahdb would do.The struggle we have had while they have been sat at home I don’t know how we have managed.Teaching grandma to suck eggs comes to mind.
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- Scottish Highlands
And yet you struggle to be profitable with a £10M turnover. Just think how much better off you’d be if you actually took some advice occasionally.
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- Hayling Island
This is one of the main problem they give away intellectual property to all including foreign competitors which we have paid for not that its much use to them. Surely any research work done by the AHBD should be the levy payers property.
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- Hayling Island
It must be easy to give away something when you haven't had to pay for it and someone else has been forced to pay the levy
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- Scottish Highlands
How would emergency use applications assist growers in other countries? Are they applied internationally?
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- Hayling Island
I don't know is that all they do
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- Scottish Highlands
No, it's not all they do, but it is a significant part of the remit according to others upstream in this thread. Personally, I see no issue with foreign farmers having access to our market price reports, fluke and worm forecasts, etc. - other things that they do which don't really have any value outside of the levy payers.
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- Hayling Island
If thats what you want its up to you there are not many research organisation that give away information free.
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- Scottish Highlands
Plenty do - have you not read any scientific journals?