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<blockquote data-quote="Austin7" data-source="post: 7458569" data-attributes="member: 42100"><p>I can in no way defend the management of AHDB Potatoes but that is a separate issue to retaining the legal structures. We know that any vote to close down Cereals and Oilseeds would be lost by a huge margin. Therefore the structure, the legislation, shows it can work, it can command Levy payer support. One of my many frustrations is that the R & D done by some excellent scientists sponsored in part or whole by AHDB never sees the light of day except in comic form. So, when you ask a group of Agronomists, who too often have been turned into non thinking rule takers, it is not surprising that you are met with head scratching. I answer by saying go into Google Scholar and type in AHDB, then type in British Potato Council and then try Potato Marketing Board and you will get a glimpse of the tip of what is lying hidden. Imagine for a moment that this was all properly searchable even White Rabbit might take an interest. But hold on, you are after practical examples. I can give you two. First as all potato growers know the challenge is that Potatoes can give up or go lazy for no apparent reason. Without getting into details we became convinced that soil applied Amistar was killing our mycorrhizal fungi. The reason you can make a seedbed much easier after beans than after rape is that mycorrhizal fungi love beans and hate rape. One of the Uk’s experts on mycorrhizal fungi is Paul Gosling of AHDB. He is an expert because he is supported by AHDB. We had a problem with in-store silver scurf, the nature of our trade is that we are in and out of stores every day which is a disastrous thing to do if you suffer from silver scurf. The answer lay in a Sutton Bridge paper by Andrews and Peters SBEU “Evaluating the efficacy of a screen humidity cell in filtering pathogens and other particulates out of air in potato stores”. We took the experimental device and made a large one which we move with a forklift. Simple, cheap, job done. If you are still unsure invite Mark Stalham out to look at your crop, challenge him that science is a waste of resources and stand back and absorb the knowledge that AHDB has supported for many years. It is all there, the only reason we are where we are with AHDB Potatoes is total rubbish management. I have told them endlessly to make the information available but not one finger has lifted to do so. It is not the system it is the operators fault that the wheels have fallen off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Austin7, post: 7458569, member: 42100"] I can in no way defend the management of AHDB Potatoes but that is a separate issue to retaining the legal structures. We know that any vote to close down Cereals and Oilseeds would be lost by a huge margin. Therefore the structure, the legislation, shows it can work, it can command Levy payer support. One of my many frustrations is that the R & D done by some excellent scientists sponsored in part or whole by AHDB never sees the light of day except in comic form. So, when you ask a group of Agronomists, who too often have been turned into non thinking rule takers, it is not surprising that you are met with head scratching. I answer by saying go into Google Scholar and type in AHDB, then type in British Potato Council and then try Potato Marketing Board and you will get a glimpse of the tip of what is lying hidden. Imagine for a moment that this was all properly searchable even White Rabbit might take an interest. But hold on, you are after practical examples. I can give you two. First as all potato growers know the challenge is that Potatoes can give up or go lazy for no apparent reason. Without getting into details we became convinced that soil applied Amistar was killing our mycorrhizal fungi. The reason you can make a seedbed much easier after beans than after rape is that mycorrhizal fungi love beans and hate rape. One of the Uk’s experts on mycorrhizal fungi is Paul Gosling of AHDB. He is an expert because he is supported by AHDB. We had a problem with in-store silver scurf, the nature of our trade is that we are in and out of stores every day which is a disastrous thing to do if you suffer from silver scurf. The answer lay in a Sutton Bridge paper by Andrews and Peters SBEU “Evaluating the efficacy of a screen humidity cell in filtering pathogens and other particulates out of air in potato stores”. We took the experimental device and made a large one which we move with a forklift. Simple, cheap, job done. If you are still unsure invite Mark Stalham out to look at your crop, challenge him that science is a waste of resources and stand back and absorb the knowledge that AHDB has supported for many years. It is all there, the only reason we are where we are with AHDB Potatoes is total rubbish management. I have told them endlessly to make the information available but not one finger has lifted to do so. It is not the system it is the operators fault that the wheels have fallen off. [/QUOTE]
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