AHDB Food & Farming

Welcome to the next edition of the AHDB Horticulture podcast. In this next edition, we will be announcing the launch of three Strategic SmartHort Centres across the UK. These farmers and growers will be part of a fantastic opportunity to help growers face the challenges around labour shortages and rising input costs. 

We’ll be hearing from Grace Emeny, AHDBs Senior Knowledge Exchange Manager who will be providing us with an insight into what the Strategic SmartHort Centres all about. Neil Fedden from Fedden-USP will be leading the programme and will explain the methods behind LEAN and what growers should be expecting from the centre’s and finally, we will hear from one of the Strategic SmartHort Centres hosts who shares why they decided to become a Strategic SmartHort Centre. 

Our first Strategic SmartHort Centres will be used as a live platform to improve labour efficiency and practice the methods of LEAN. This practical way of learning will implement the theory of LEAN to drive business benefit. 

Find out who our three Strategic SmartHort Centres are and what the future holds for horticulture growers. For further information, please visit: ahdb.org.uk/smarthort 

In this edition of the AHDB podcast, we hear about the new #MuckFreeTruck campaign which is urging pig producers, processors and hauliers to ensure livestock lorries are properly cleaned. 

Launched by ourselves and the National Pig Association (NPA), in conjunction with other key stakeholders, the campaign is a response to the thread posed by African swine fever, which is causing hug problems in Asia and eastern Europe.

Read more about the campaign (NPA) 

Twitter 

Find out more about African swine fever (AHDB)

Defra information on African swine fever

Cleaning and disinfection of vehicles

Disinfectant check list

Biosecurity factsheet

Significant diseases charter

 

Pork Talk market update videos

AHDB Brexit hub

 

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AHDB’s new Storage Network, a new initiative backed by Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research (SBCSR) to enable all levy payers to benefit from one-to-one advice on potato storage was launched at the recent Herefordshire Storage Day.

This episode Gareth Renowden, Senior Marketing Manager for AHDB Beef & Lamb and Stasha Napior-Kowska, Senior Account Manager in the market development team talk about the up coming lamb campaign and what AHDB is doing to get both consumers and the industry excited about lamb.

We will also be running the annual Love Lamb Week that takes place  1- 7 September.

For more information about all of AHDB's marketing activity visit: https://ahdb.org.uk/marketing

How did improving farm staff management skills make James Orr’s job easier and more enjoyable? In this episode, James talks to AHDB Skills Manager Amie Burke about what he learnt from some staff management workshops and the benefits it brought to his farm in Fife.

How to write your own farm business plan with AHDB’s Tess Howe and Oliver McEntyre of Barclays. To finish up, Amandeep Kaur Purewal talks about an updated tool to help your farm business.

In this edition, we hear from strategic dairy farmer Willie Baillie, on his herd breeding strategy, as well as AHDB genetics experts Marco Winter and Fern Pearston, who take us through the genetics indexes and AHDB tools for supporting breeding decisions, such as our herd genetics reports.

We’ll also hear more about the benefits of genomic testing, and how farmers can use those results to better inform their breeding strategy.

Useful links:

[AHDB herd genetic reports](https://dairy.ahdb.org.uk/technical-information/breeding-genetics/herd-genetic-reports/#.XN7GlehKhPZ)

[AHDB genetics and breeding pages](http://AHDB genetics and breeding pages)

[AHDB strategic dairy farms](http://AHDB strategic dairy farms)

[Zoetis genomic testing](http://Zoetis genomic testing)

In this edition of the AHDB podcast, we hear from Liam Byrne, head of meat marketing at AHDB. Liam talks about the midweek meal campaign, which is a three-year campaign aiming to inspire more people to cook with pork or to cook with pork more often. We also hear from a processor and two producers, who tell us their views on the success of the campaign to date.

We finish up with a quick market update from Tom Forshaw, one of our analysts, who considers why European pig prices might be rising more quickly than here in the UK.

Website: www.lovepork.co.uk

Facebook: www.facebook.com/lovepork.UK

Instagram: www.instagram.com/love_pork

Pick Pork TV advert: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMJTbFcUjGw

Butchers and farm shop owners, order your free point-of-sale kits from: www.lovepork.co.uk/butchers-kits 

Turmeric pork skewers recipe: www.lovepork.co.uk/recipes/turmeric-pork-skewers-with-supergrain-salad/

Download the full Pick Pork recipe booklet here, or order a printed copy via: [email protected]

Pork Talk market update videos

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Welcome to the next edition of the horticulture podcast. Today we have a special guest, Vivian Powell, Crop Protection Senior Scientist from AHDB who has served the horticulture industry for 40 years of her life and 18 years working for AHDB delivering some fantastic work. She has helped many growers and businesses save resources, money and time. 

Bolette Nave, Crop Protection Scientist from AHDB will be interviewing Vivian Powell. She will be sharing some of her key moments in the industry and what the future holds for the minor use programme project. 

We will also hear an update from Joe Martin, our Crop Protection Senior Scientist at AHDB will share an interesting insight into SCEPTREplus and what growers should look forward to. 

For further information on SCEPTREplus or Minor Use Programme visit: ahdb.org.uk

In the next episode, we’ll be finding out what the results from our latest Pork marketing campaign tell us, along with what plans there are for future activity. We’ll discover whether more people have been buying pork as a result of the campaign and what this means in financial terms.

Listen to a preview from our Strategic Potato Farm network, including the North, South, East and West. Growers in Scotland will be treated to a full overview from their SPot farm over the course of the season.