If contributions to AHDB were voluntary would you pay ?

[Henarar]

Well would you ?

 

[An Gof]

More than happy to pay at current rates for what we get from cereals and oilseeds.
However I might need persuasion and a serious change in output from Beef and Lamb sector to continue supporting that. So it’s a yes and a possibly from me. ?

 

[traineefarmer]

Several hundred pounds paid in every year. I'm yet to see any proof of how that money has been spent to benefit the industry.

I should add this is beef.

 

[Henarar]

I voted no because I think it would collapse if it were voluntary but having said that we have been to meetings and events and more recently watched webinars they have put on so for the small amount we directly pay them I think we do ok

 

[Jackov Altraids]

They take £5.40 for every head of cattle and 80p for every lamb/sheep.
That's costing me about £600 a year which has the perverse action of making me think that farm assurance is not so bad!
A voluntary levy simply doesn't work. Inevitably the biggest contributors stop paying and the 'service' declines as the costs don't decrease.
AHDB have provided me with some useful information / meetings but I would value it at less than £100 / year.
I'd save myself £500 given the chance.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

Is there a way that this thread could be copied into Agricultural matters where it might get more views? @Clive

 

[teslacoils]

Nah. All I see from them are the recommended lists, and they are crap now. Quango. Scrap it.

 

[Clive]

Is there a way that this thread could be copied into Agricultural matters where it might get more views? @Clive

done

 

[Clive]

They take £5.40 for every head of cattle and 80p for every lamb/sheep.
That's costing me about £600 a year which has the perverse action of making me think that farm assurance is not so bad!
A voluntary levy simply doesn't work. Inevitably the biggest contributors stop paying and the 'service' declines as the costs don't decrease.
AHDB have provided me with some useful information / meetings but I would value it at less than £100 / year.
I'd save myself £500 given the chance.

£500 doesn’t buy much professional advice these days

 

[Henarar]

£500 doesn’t buy much professional advice these days

are farmers professional ?
if so you can come on here and get it for nart

 

[deere 6600]

Someone tell me what they do

 

[Princess Pooper]

Someone tell me what they do

If you are a levy payer, shame on you for not bothering to find out.

 

[Rossymons]

If AHDB Dairy did nothing else but publish breeding values 3 times a year then the levy would still be good value.

 

[Tarw Coch]

If you are a levy payer, shame on you for not bothering to find out.

Having helped themselves to levy payers money you’d have thought they’d have the decency to tell them what they have done with their money

 

[Princess Pooper]

Having helped themselves to levy payers money you’d have thought they’d have the decency to tell them what they have done with their money

They do, but some don't want to hear. At the very least there is this new-fangled thing called a website.

 

[kill]

If AHDB Dairy did nothing else but publish breeding values 3 times a year then the levy would still be good value.

As a new entrant into dairying I have found their meetings, farm walks , brochures, website and help with running my local grassland discussion group invaluable as always very helpful and none judgmental as would anyone else in a similar position. Any questions asked are always answered well and explained in appropriate detail.
As a beef farmer previously I never even knew they existed.

 

[Rossymons]

As a new entrant into dairying I have found their meetings, farm walks , brochures, website and help with running my local grassland discussion group invaluable as always very helpful and none judgmental as would anyone else in a similar position. Any questions asked are always answered well and explained in appropriate detail.
As a beef farmer previously I never even knew they existed.

I agree, the discussion group was very useful.

Piers Badnell - before he went to LIC - assisted me in Honours project into pre-mowing as well.

 

[Sid]

They facilitated our discussion group.

Learnt more from fellow farmers than AHDB. All they wanted to do was waste money on "experts" to tell us what text books say.

Do very very little for organics.

 

[Sid]

I agree, the discussion group was very useful.

Piers Badnell - before he went to LIC - assisted me in Honours project into pre-mowing as well.

But that's learning from other farmers not AHDB?

 

[An Gof]

But that's learning from other farmers not AHDB?

Butbthere is a role for a facilitator to make it all happen