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<blockquote data-quote="Hindsight" data-source="post: 7497347" data-attributes="member: 3169"><p>Yes, I follow what you say and your sentiment. And the ballot results in Potatoes and Horticulture indicate many others do too - though I will caveat by saying the AHDB sectors fund more than just R&D and knowledge transfer. And to me to an extent this is a rerun of what happened in 1996, when The Conservative Government followed through on the Bell report and privatised ADAS. Some bits of what ADAS did (most really) withered on the vine as 'dead wood' was 'pruned' by the now paying industry having removed the 'free' advisory service that was there before. Was that for the better I leave yourself and others to pass judgement. </p><p></p><p>The question that the Minister will face (one of many I suspect) is if following your approach is there any aspect of Research (an institute or organisation) that the levy payers (farmers) do not want to, or consider worth paying for, be that now or in future, that should be protected and preserved (as that institute or research is valuable but the levy payers cannot see that) and if so how is that to be funded. </p><p></p><p>When ADAS was privatised the levy money was of course still there and co-funded many of these institutions. There has been rationalization since. </p><p></p><p>The ballots have brought those questions to the fore again. </p><p></p><p>From this thread and recent posts it seems to my observation Austin7 favours some form of ongoing R&D focussed 'core' of researchers. The poster called SPud may also be similarly minded. The No voters have made no such suggestion which is fair enough other than wish to get rid of the annual levy invoice. </p><p></p><p>An interesting issue. Cheers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hindsight, post: 7497347, member: 3169"] Yes, I follow what you say and your sentiment. And the ballot results in Potatoes and Horticulture indicate many others do too - though I will caveat by saying the AHDB sectors fund more than just R&D and knowledge transfer. And to me to an extent this is a rerun of what happened in 1996, when The Conservative Government followed through on the Bell report and privatised ADAS. Some bits of what ADAS did (most really) withered on the vine as 'dead wood' was 'pruned' by the now paying industry having removed the 'free' advisory service that was there before. Was that for the better I leave yourself and others to pass judgement. The question that the Minister will face (one of many I suspect) is if following your approach is there any aspect of Research (an institute or organisation) that the levy payers (farmers) do not want to, or consider worth paying for, be that now or in future, that should be protected and preserved (as that institute or research is valuable but the levy payers cannot see that) and if so how is that to be funded. When ADAS was privatised the levy money was of course still there and co-funded many of these institutions. There has been rationalization since. The ballots have brought those questions to the fore again. From this thread and recent posts it seems to my observation Austin7 favours some form of ongoing R&D focussed 'core' of researchers. The poster called SPud may also be similarly minded. The No voters have made no such suggestion which is fair enough other than wish to get rid of the annual levy invoice. An interesting issue. Cheers. [/QUOTE]
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