Give your views on AHDB

[bankrupt]

9. Does the current AHDB board, Sector Board and committee structure serve the needs of levy payers well?

Yes

No

Don't know

No opinion


Please use this space to explain your answer in more detail, including whether you have different views for different sectors.

 

[gone up the hill]

Any evidence to substantiate this GUTH?

Statements from the likes of AHDB/ NFU on the EID thread basically saying this is the way they are heading @shakerator .

I think however there will be a producer backlash when it becomes apparent the road they are heading down and the costs of it all, let alone all the farmers that are not computer/smart phone savvy who will really struggle.

 

[gone up the hill]

At a meeting I was at Adam Quinney declared that livestock farmers should have to complete CPD each year for administering injections to animals correctly. Even the Vet at the meeting disagreed with him!
The vet said he hadn’t received injection training since his first module a vet school which explained about sub cut and intra muscular but wasn’t practical. He said vets are obliged to ensure farmers know how to inject animals when they give them to them and that suffices.

It is true that Quinney said this @Hampton ?? what meeting and when?

I thought he had more sense than this...

If the likes of him carry on like they seem to be doing they will end up driving a lot of farmers out of livestock farming, just not enough profit for producers to be doing all this crap that they are intent on pushing onto us.

 

[Hampton]

It is true that Quinney said this @Hampton ?? what meeting and when?

I thought he had more sense than this...

If the likes of him carry on like they seem to be doing they will end up driving a lot of farmers out of livestock farming, just not enough profit for producers to be doing all this crap that they are intent on pushing onto us.

West Midlands NFU livestock meeting. It would be in the minutes

 

[gone up the hill]

West Midlands NFU livestock meeting. It would be in the minutes

Was that recently?

 

[Hampton]

Was that recently?

I think around January. Not long before NFU conference

 

[Hampton]

I think around January. Not long before NFU conference

It was the meeting where they elected the board for the year

 

[ajd132]

looking at the biographies of board members (and salaries etc) and it all seems to be bit of an NFU old boys club, same people moving around various boards.

 

[turbo]

looking at the biographies of board members (and salaries etc) and it all seems to be bit of an NFU old boys club, same people moving around various boards.

And all at our expense,another load of blood suckers living of the back of farmers

 

[ajd132]

50k for chairman seems a lot!

 

[Sonoftheheir]

looking at the biographies of board members (and salaries etc) and it all seems to be bit of an NFU old boys club, same people moving around various boards.

Well someone’s got to do it

I’ve been to one or two organisation AGM’s and I found them incredibly

Getting paid to be there might be a different matter though!

 

[ajd132]

Well someone’s got to do it

I’ve been to one or two organisation AGM’s and I found them incredibly

Getting paid to be there might be a different matter though!

Oh I agree, it wasn't a dig more an observation!

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Oh I agree, it wasn't a dig more an observation!

Well it certainly takes a certain type of person to do it, afaik.

 

[ajd132]

Well it certainly takes a certain type of person to do it, afaik.

It certainly does. Often seems that many of the people who get high on things like the NFU often have a brother at home running the actual business!

 

[An Gof]

It certainly does. Often seems that many of the people who get high on things like the NFU often have a brother at home running the actual business!

Bit unfair, being an NFU Officeholder is a full time job and some. Impossible to take up those positions and be hands on at home running the business.

 

[ajd132]

Bit unfair, being an NFU Officeholder is a full time job and some. Impossible to take up those positions and be hands on at home running the business.

Again, an observation not a dig!

 

[An Gof]

Again, an observation not a dig!

It didn’t come across that way especially with the use of an exclamation mark at the end.
Of course this is not a dig just an observation

 

[ajd132]

It didn’t come across that way especially with the use of an exclamation mark at the end.
Of course this is not a dig just an observation

Okay

 

[Tamar]

Lets be realistic, the people that should be running our industry are too busy running their own successful businesses. The same with running the Country, we are getting second best as the best candidates certainly don't want to be MP's.

The only difference is that at least we all get to vote on who is running the Country !

 

[SilliamWhale]

Lets be realistic, the people that should be running our industry are too busy running their own successful businesses. The same with running the Country, we are getting second best as the best candidates certainly don't want to be MP's.

The only difference is that at least we all get to vote on who is running the Country !

I don't think that's true. A lot of business people would be no good in politics and vice versa. I think MP's get a hard time by and large - they stick themselves up for election, they generally mean well and they could be out on their ear overnight