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Only because I’m not in the same country - but I do pay a very similar levy to QMS, much of which goes on collaborative projects with AHDB.
Blood sucking ahdb
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Only because I’m not in the same country - but I do pay a very similar levy to QMS, much of which goes on collaborative projects with AHDB.
By you I meant it doesn't have to be paid
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Not sure how one can be a producer and avoid paying. I certainly can’t avoid the lamb or beef payments, although I suppose I could sell everything store and let the next step in the chain pay instead. But however it’s done, it’s fairly certain that the lambs and calfs born here will end up having levy attached to them.
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. I take your point - but there ain’t any markets if I shoot and cut it myself.Can’t believe I’m suggesting that Simon has more reasonable grounds for complaint than Clive. Time for a lie down in a dark room, I think.
White rabbit
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A quarter of million a year , half of it then given to guy. The ahdb make Santa Claus look like Scrooge, surprisingly paying all these organisations (and god knows there is a list just look at the accounts) and the 27 million wage bill doesn’t hurt one bit because it’s not their bloody money.
yep
pay AHDB so much for everything we sell they bung a wedge of it to RT and RT use it to buy sticks to beat farmers with.
you couldn't really make it up
White rabbit
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you have to admit it is a very good ploy, bung all these organisations a good lump of cash and then they will back you all the way , like the review half of the 0.45 percent were these organisations and were they going to cut off the hand the feeds them I will have to think about that for a moment, are we treated as mugs or what, somebody ought to inform them we got rid of our smock and bit of straw a few years back.
White rabbit
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Yesterday I received an article out of the south east farmer sent by a grower , this quoted a fruit grower who sits on one of the panels and seemed to be undecided but thought he would vote yes, so l called him and we had a long and informative chat , then he said he had been trying for years to stop them taking money from Packhouses and you would have thought with him being on the panel they might have given it some thought but no they chose to turn a blind eye, doesn’t that say it all.
White rabbit
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maybe I should start up a dialogue with pig producers , they are having a tough time at moment,I should think paying a useless quango must be somewhere near the top of their list for cost cutting.
I think you'll find pig producers a bit more open to cpd than your blinkered approach
is that a new pig disease that people can get ?
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Maybe you’d be better to spend your energy closer to home and sort your own business out, rather than trying to meddle with others?
White rabbit
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spud you want to careful you and highland mule don’t give each other rheumatism.No, Henarar, it's not.
White rabbit
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Kevin roberts former chief exc ahdb salary £200,000 ,pension pot £300,000 , redundancy £200,000 total. £700,000. He then walked straight into the Nfu . Bernadette Garvey salary £100,000 pension pot £294,000 ,redundancy £135,000 total £529,000.Richard lowe deputy chief exc salary £135,000 ,pension pot £136,000 ,redundancy £96,000 ,total £367,000. This is only the tip of the iceberg, This is an absolute scandal .
White rabbit
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I hope president Putin is looking in on these two ballots he would be very proud, after listening to the town hall meeting last night it now emerges that if they were to lose they would be going through each vote and counting the largest votes to put in front of the minister. I thought we had seen the last of this stunt when the pmb pulled it.
