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<blockquote data-quote="Austin7" data-source="post: 7494618" data-attributes="member: 42100"><p>The purpose of delivering market information to growers is to strengthen their position in the marketplace. It is in nobody’s interests to keep good market information away from any grower regardless of whether they support a body or not. Collectively we need to help weak sellers and thereby help ourselves. For the last 10 years AHDB have delivered inadequate and erroneous information to the growers and so have weakened our market. I also remember Potato Call, I ceased paying for that for the same reasons. The reality is that it is much easier to acquire information from those with a buyers agenda, lazy research costs growers money. This market information failure has cost growers way more than any Levy. Not just AHDB, now too often Farming Forum talks prices down as those who are selling at good values keep their mouths shut. We sell everything on the open market. We never discuss prices with our customers, we issue a price list which we adjust about every six weeks. We put our prices up yesterday, our best are leaving the farm at £375 per ton and our cheapest at £210 which should take our average up from £296 to just over £300. Not being able to get to market because of Covid has made pricing difficult but we have somebody who will test buy our spuds back to check the mark-up. The Ministers, both with a farming background, are aware of the problem hence the Part 3 of the Agriculture Act which for the nerds I attach here. Despite all the grief I am causing certain parties on this forum, the way forward is to work together. I know Nick Saphir is also a convinced collaborator as 40 years ago I was Chairman of a Potato Cooperative and he sat beside me as Board Member. So the surprising answer is weak sellers are a danger to all so rather than keep them in ignorance force feed them true prices.[ATTACH]951444[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Austin7, post: 7494618, member: 42100"] The purpose of delivering market information to growers is to strengthen their position in the marketplace. It is in nobody’s interests to keep good market information away from any grower regardless of whether they support a body or not. Collectively we need to help weak sellers and thereby help ourselves. For the last 10 years AHDB have delivered inadequate and erroneous information to the growers and so have weakened our market. I also remember Potato Call, I ceased paying for that for the same reasons. The reality is that it is much easier to acquire information from those with a buyers agenda, lazy research costs growers money. This market information failure has cost growers way more than any Levy. Not just AHDB, now too often Farming Forum talks prices down as those who are selling at good values keep their mouths shut. We sell everything on the open market. We never discuss prices with our customers, we issue a price list which we adjust about every six weeks. We put our prices up yesterday, our best are leaving the farm at £375 per ton and our cheapest at £210 which should take our average up from £296 to just over £300. Not being able to get to market because of Covid has made pricing difficult but we have somebody who will test buy our spuds back to check the mark-up. The Ministers, both with a farming background, are aware of the problem hence the Part 3 of the Agriculture Act which for the nerds I attach here. Despite all the grief I am causing certain parties on this forum, the way forward is to work together. I know Nick Saphir is also a convinced collaborator as 40 years ago I was Chairman of a Potato Cooperative and he sat beside me as Board Member. So the surprising answer is weak sellers are a danger to all so rather than keep them in ignorance force feed them true prices.[ATTACH]951444[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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