Well done AHDB

[graham mc]

maybe he meant steakeaters. Sat around a big table eating the best steak while discussing how bad cow sare for the environment, all on expenses of course

i think thats the select bunch who decide what farmers should pay

ps i actually do think the guys at the bottom level such as @Levy Believer are trying to do a decent job but the institutions are not for changing

 

[JP1]

If there's going to be a vote, IMHO, the only way to approach it, is to ask AHDB for the exact number required to hit the 5%.
That way we know exactly what's required, and they have no 'wiggle room'.

If they can't give the definitive number (and from all information that we appear to be getting, they can't), we'd need to go to the Secretary of State and ask him.

It's no good organising a vote if we don't know what the target is. We only have one shot at it, mess it up and we'll have to wait years for another chance.

As far as I understand it, the S of S is not bound to scrap it even if we get the required numbers - you can reckon they'd be some serious ar$elicking going on, it we ever get as far as a vote.

After the veg success they’ve already been to the Minister and concocted a survey for each sector to “prioritise “ where levy would be attuned in future and in that way wriggle out of an existential vote

When I got my survey form I called for Will Jackson and he rang me . The central message was ; I’m new in , lots of future stuff to come and improve , stick with me . Oh and there’s no need for an existential vote

At Pig sector meetings I’ve raised directly with the marketing head lady (at the height of the pig rollover crisis) about pro British promotion and also positive and clear food labelling ideas to DEFRA consultation. I was just told it’s not as simple as that and they have to follow fairness guidelines for all UK and non UK meat

I also am not really in agreement with the well done heading - fair play a few have deigned to come on here but not the heads and not with anything positive or open

 

[Old apprentice]

After the veg success they’ve already been to the Minister and concocted a survey for each sector to “prioritise “ where levy would be attuned in future and in that way wriggle out of an existential vote

When I got my survey form I called for Will Jackson and he rang me . The central message was ; I’m new in , lots of future stuff to come and improve , stick with me . Oh and there’s no need for an existential vote

At Pig sector meetings I’ve raised directly with the marketing head lady (at the height of the pig rollover crisis) about pro British promotion and also positive and clear food labelling ideas to DEFRA consultation. I was just told it’s not as simple as that and they have to follow fairness guidelines for all UK and non UK meat

I also am not really in agreement with the well done heading - fair play a few have deigned to come on here but not the heads and not with anything positive or open

Why have we to pander to non UK meat it begers belief not in full support of UK meat. It is just the same as aic, and imported grain they treat our produce as inferior to imported

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

The real question is what are farmers getting for their £60 million a year?

 

[MrNoo]

The real question is what are farmers getting for their £60 million a year?

F/A

 

[Old apprentice]

F/A

Just a few meetings to go to.

 

[JP1]

Why have we to pander to non UK meat it begers belief not in full support of UK meat. It is just the same as aic, and imported grain they treat our produce as inferior to imported

They always cite trade agreement rules etc etc.

But it's my money and you really think the USDA guy is going to go back to his farmers and say "well we need to be fair to all with our promotion"

 

[Old apprentice]

They always cite trade agreement rules etc etc.

But it's my money and you really think the USDA guy is going to go back to his farmers and say "well we need to be fair to all with our promotion"

They will just laugh at Ahdb soft bu...ers.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

Here are the estimated numbers currently on the AHDBs we
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I think these will be the numbers that would need to be reached. I have no idea if @Jackov Altraids numbers are more up to date than 2020. But I would think they would take a “generous estimate” in this situation and would require whatever numbers are higher.

Just checked.
The figures I quoted were from 2015.
I think you could be pretty sure there have been further reductions in the last 3 years

 

[Tamar]

F/A

Would that be Farm Assurance !!

Asking for a friend

 

[yellowbelly]

I also am not really in agreement with the well done heading - fair play a few have deigned to come on here but not the heads and not with anything positive or open

Me neither - I'm reading it as sarcasm.....
Well done , AHDB.

 

[Flatland guy]

The real question is what are farmers getting for their £60 million a year?

Robbed and then stabbed in the back.

The way they are using our money to say we( us farmers) are damaging the planet and causing climate change is utterly despicable!

 

[Andy Nash]

Me neither - I'm reading it as sarcasm.....
Well done , AHDB.

It started well, and then the revelations about what they’d been up came out.
I believe there is a lot more to come out yet.

 

[yellowbelly]

I believe there is a lot more to come out yet.

It wouldn't surprise me at all.

IMHO, the CEO left the top job for a reason.

 

[le bon paysan]

You lot have a right load of shite to put up with.
All I can see is that they ( nfu ahdb etc) are coming for you with a baseball bat and they are going to try and insert it sideways and with no lube. Just glad I'm over here not having to put up with all the shite.
Keep fighting!!

 

[DrWazzock]

Yep. I’ve tried to see some good in AHDB and RT as I like to give folk the benefit of the doubt and avoid conflict. But I really am struggling to see how that the millions in levies are being well spent. If they think they can get away with business as usual then I fully agree we need a vote on their future. Absolutely had enough here and sickens me to see what they rake off every lamb and load of grain.
Reast them out.

 

[Hay Maker]

Seems like a real shambles within AHDB. What with giving our money to Red Tractor and then realising they shouldn't have too.

Hi Keep talking & pushing for answers as a lot more muck will no doubt come out!

 

[Vader]

Hi Keep talking & pushing for answers as a lot more muck will no doubt come out!

BFU is keeping a steady stream on FOI requests going in as each answer we get seems to create more questions.

 

[tullah]

BFU is keeping a steady stream on FOI requests going in as each answer we get seems to create more questions.

Had it not been for the BFU coming together on Tff then nobody would have been any the wiser and farmers would have continued to be just yes men to the thieves at Dead Tractor.

 

[ollie989898]

Had it not been for the BFU coming together on Tff then nobody would have been any the wiser and farmers would have continued to be just yes men to the thieves at Dead Tractor.

I hope BFU has 10,000 members shortly and can ballot them to get rid of ADHB as it would surely easily have all the required numbers.