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Defra: Open consultation Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) reform
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave645" data-source="post: 7878885" data-attributes="member: 55822"><p>I think it’s important that farmers vote in this consultation.</p><p><a href="https://consult.defra.gov.uk/ahdb-relationship-team/ahdb-order/" target="_blank">https://consult.defra.gov.uk/ahdb-relationship-team/ahdb-order/</a></p><p>Questions 14 and 15 will have long felt effects for uk farmers . If we lose the right to vote to stop paying levies, if we feel not represented, or helped by them. The only reason they are playing at reforming themselves is because they got booted for no doing their job for the potatoes industry. If that threat disappears you can guess it will not be long before they go back to their old ways, ignoring farmers.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1002346[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1002347[/ATTACH]</p><p>So take this chance and protect our industry from unaccountable government bodies.</p><p>Next vote to have a say in question 14.</p><p>At the end of the consultation ask for the right to pick who runs the AHDB while they say we will get levy payers on the board or ex levy payers, that still lets them pick for themselves who they get to run this farming funded levies board, so ask to be able to pick the representatives that make up the 50% that are levy payers.</p><p>In reality they only need one yes man in our 50% of the board to overrule the 50% that is supposed to represent farmers in this new reform.</p><p>I would also have asked for 51% plus % representation of the board as the people that are funding the thing, should always have a controlling stake. Only having 50% and no say over who actually gets to be a control board member seems to me not a true reform and all the more reason to retain the option for a vote to drop levies with question 15.</p><p></p><p>don’t sleep walk, through this consultation make your opinion known. Don’t let them spend our money while we get no real say.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave645, post: 7878885, member: 55822"] I think it’s important that farmers vote in this consultation. [URL]https://consult.defra.gov.uk/ahdb-relationship-team/ahdb-order/[/URL] Questions 14 and 15 will have long felt effects for uk farmers . If we lose the right to vote to stop paying levies, if we feel not represented, or helped by them. The only reason they are playing at reforming themselves is because they got booted for no doing their job for the potatoes industry. If that threat disappears you can guess it will not be long before they go back to their old ways, ignoring farmers. [ATTACH type="full" alt="3D378636-CFDA-470E-8A9F-CB457C8577A7.jpeg"]1002346[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="739238DF-31A1-4994-9DE9-7650E3A305B2.jpeg"]1002347[/ATTACH] So take this chance and protect our industry from unaccountable government bodies. Next vote to have a say in question 14. At the end of the consultation ask for the right to pick who runs the AHDB while they say we will get levy payers on the board or ex levy payers, that still lets them pick for themselves who they get to run this farming funded levies board, so ask to be able to pick the representatives that make up the 50% that are levy payers. In reality they only need one yes man in our 50% of the board to overrule the 50% that is supposed to represent farmers in this new reform. I would also have asked for 51% plus % representation of the board as the people that are funding the thing, should always have a controlling stake. Only having 50% and no say over who actually gets to be a control board member seems to me not a true reform and all the more reason to retain the option for a vote to drop levies with question 15. don’t sleep walk, through this consultation make your opinion known. Don’t let them spend our money while we get no real say. [/QUOTE]
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