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<blockquote data-quote="Grass And Grain" data-source="post: 8104984" data-attributes="member: 23184"><p>Marketing/promotion is AHDB's remit, so the self written industry rules on grain assurance requirements must be a common set of rules. It mustn't be one set of arduous rules for UK farmers, but less pages in the rule book for imports. This is a <strong>RED LINE. </strong>Failure to fix this is would mean I would vote to disband AHDB. </p><p></p><p>The above issue should not have needed to have been highlighted by a bunch of straw chewers. AHDB board members and employees should have noticed. If they failed to notice that gaping hole, then what else haven't they noticed or bad decisions have they made? It's a shocker. Employees and board members come and go and <strong>NON OF THEM</strong> realised.</p><p></p><p>Nearly 15 months has past and currently no news, although I'm hopeful something is happening in meeting rooms.</p><p></p><p>Apart from the above, RL is OK but imagine there's room for improvement.</p><p></p><p>Pest and disease threshold and predictions are very useful.</p><p></p><p>I've never been to a monitor farm meeting, but that's my fault rather than AHDB's. I've been keener to attend recently, and now COVID is a little less problematic I will attend soon.</p><p></p><p>I didn't use the free advice under the, what was it, Farm Resilience Fund? Again not AHDB's fault, they offered consultations, but I couldn't see what they could tell me, so didn't waste my time. Maybe that was silly on my part. All AHDB could do was offer help. The consultant could probably have condensed the outcomes of Monitor Farm learnings to me in 50 mins, so that would have been useful. So I'll score AHDB well for that one.</p><p></p><p>As the OP says, more funds for saving actives might be good if there was reasonable hope of achieving success. If the thinking is it wouldn't help, then fair enough don't unnecessarily waste cash on it.</p><p></p><p>Recent survey/consultation was a bit disappointing. Just seemed to give the general areas of expenditure and ask if we wanted spending in those areas to increase or decrease. I'd have liked opportunity to say if we thought overall levy rate should increase or decrease...</p><p></p><p>So their conclusion is going to be less spending on X, more spending on Y. That's what our levy payers wanted. NO, it might not be what your levy payers wanted, it's just those were the only options given. I know surveys are difficult to do to get meaningful data, but I thought this one was underwhelming in its structure and the data it could generate. Survey usefulness rating 1/5.</p><p></p><p>Conclusion.</p><p></p><p>OK, but room for improvement. My red line is just that, a red line. Failure with that issue, and AHDB are failing me as a grower. Fix the issue and I'll back AHDB to survive and evolve.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grass And Grain, post: 8104984, member: 23184"] Marketing/promotion is AHDB's remit, so the self written industry rules on grain assurance requirements must be a common set of rules. It mustn't be one set of arduous rules for UK farmers, but less pages in the rule book for imports. This is a [B]RED LINE. [/B]Failure to fix this is would mean I would vote to disband AHDB. The above issue should not have needed to have been highlighted by a bunch of straw chewers. AHDB board members and employees should have noticed. If they failed to notice that gaping hole, then what else haven't they noticed or bad decisions have they made? It's a shocker. Employees and board members come and go and [B]NON OF THEM[/B] realised. Nearly 15 months has past and currently no news, although I'm hopeful something is happening in meeting rooms. Apart from the above, RL is OK but imagine there's room for improvement. Pest and disease threshold and predictions are very useful. I've never been to a monitor farm meeting, but that's my fault rather than AHDB's. I've been keener to attend recently, and now COVID is a little less problematic I will attend soon. I didn't use the free advice under the, what was it, Farm Resilience Fund? Again not AHDB's fault, they offered consultations, but I couldn't see what they could tell me, so didn't waste my time. Maybe that was silly on my part. All AHDB could do was offer help. The consultant could probably have condensed the outcomes of Monitor Farm learnings to me in 50 mins, so that would have been useful. So I'll score AHDB well for that one. As the OP says, more funds for saving actives might be good if there was reasonable hope of achieving success. If the thinking is it wouldn't help, then fair enough don't unnecessarily waste cash on it. Recent survey/consultation was a bit disappointing. Just seemed to give the general areas of expenditure and ask if we wanted spending in those areas to increase or decrease. I'd have liked opportunity to say if we thought overall levy rate should increase or decrease... So their conclusion is going to be less spending on X, more spending on Y. That's what our levy payers wanted. NO, it might not be what your levy payers wanted, it's just those were the only options given. I know surveys are difficult to do to get meaningful data, but I thought this one was underwhelming in its structure and the data it could generate. Survey usefulness rating 1/5. Conclusion. OK, but room for improvement. My red line is just that, a red line. Failure with that issue, and AHDB are failing me as a grower. Fix the issue and I'll back AHDB to survive and evolve. [/QUOTE]
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