AHDB Food & Farming

In this episode, Gracie Emeny, Senior Knowledge Exchange Manager for SmartHORT, chats to Neil Fedden (Fedden-USP), Darryl Beck (Kernock Park Plants) and Virginia Aurora Colquhoun-Gonzalez (Allensmore Nurseries) about the delivery of Lean management training on the AHDB SmartHort programme, their experiences of Lean management and how the training can help business operations.

The AHDB website provides more information about our SmartHORT programme, as well as the principles of Lean and Lean management methods for growers and farmers.

#WeEatBalanced is an exciting new TV campaign we hope you have all seen representing facts not fear on red meat and dairy, but have you ever wondered what goes into making sure campaigns like this work, and how we can all pull together to support our reputation and get ready for the post Brexit era? 

In this podcast Rebecca Miah, AHDB Beef & Lamb Sector Strategy Director, talks to Jon Foot, Head of Environment and Sarah Baker, Senior Strategic Insight Manager about how their work informs AHDB campaigns.

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Over the last 16 years your levy has made it possible to deliver positive messages about potatoes, to more than five million primary school children in the UK, via AHDB’s Grow Your Own Potatoes programme.

This programme teaches young pupils all about potatoes: where they come from, how they grow and their health benefits. 

Despite the coronavirus pandemic GYOP continued throughout 2020, and Sue Lawton, AHDB Education Manager, has got big plans for the 2021 growing season. 

Host: John Bates

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Learn more about GYOP: Grow Your Own Potatoes Website

We work closely with Food Fact of Life (FFL). FFL is a comprehensive, progressive education programme which communicates up-to-date, evidence-based, consistent and accurate messages around ‘food’ to all those involved in education. Learn more

In this podcast, AHBD Farm Economics Knowledge Exchange Manager Tabitha Allen chats to fellow Knowledge Exchange Manager Julie Clark about how AHDB's Farmbench can help you make changes on farm. They also chat to two farmers, David Fuller-Shapcott and John Billington, about the changes they have made on their farms as a result of using Farmbench.

For more information about Farmbench, please visit: https://ahdb.org.uk/farmbench

Pembrokeshire Monitor Farm host Tom Rees interviews AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds board member David Bell. They discuss how the AHDB board works; the importance of farm assurance; Monitor Farms and more.

Find out more about the AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds board: https://ahdb.org.uk/cereals-board 

Sarah Baker, Senior Strategic Insight Manager

Phil Bicknell, Market Intelligence Director

David Eudall, Head of Market Specialists (Arable)

If you are an arable or livestock farmer this podcast is for you.

The guests in this episode of the AHDB podcast share their insight to help you make informed decisions about your business now we have left the EU and move towards the uncertainties created by the arrival of ELMS payments.

Later this month, we'll also be looking at how our exit from the EU is shaping farming's future in a number of webinars, whether that's emerging agricultural policy, trade prospects, or the new opportunities that British farming will have – keep an eye on our events page for all the details.

The latest industry news, insights, government guidance and technical advice.

This tool can be used to simply calculate how BPS payment reductions in England will impact your farm business. 

Learn the things which set the highest-performing farms apart from the rest and improve your own farm performance

We are embarking on major change at AHDB to improve value for levy payers, find out what this means for you and how you can give us feedback.

Join one of our town hall meetings to find out more: https://ahdb.org.uk/events

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In this podcast John Bates speaks to AHDB exports staff across a number of sectors to see what exports activities your levy is spent on. We also discover how the team is working with international markets to create demand for our products during 2020 and going forwards in 2021.

For more information visit:

AHDB exports website

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Animal health and welfare is at top of agenda matter for livestock farmers and for all the right reasons. As the Brexit transition period closes at the end of 2020, Britain thereafter will be trading and operating differently than for the last few decades. Unions and others have been lobbying Government to prevent cheap and poorly produced food from flooding into the UK.

 

In this episode John Bates talks to Mandy Nevel, vet and Head of Animal Health & Welfare at AHDB, Amy Jackson, Communications Specialist at Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture (RUMA), and Georgina Crayford, Technical Manager for Pigs at Red Tractor, about animal health and welfare in the UK.

 

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AHDB is here to support levy payers’ businesses with key services, tools and benchmarking to improve productivity and shape environmental solutions. On-farm performance and sustainability are areas of focus as well as marketing, exports and research partnerships; all intended to drive excellence and growth.

John Bates speaks to Rebecca Geraghty, chief technical officer at AHDB about the organisation's ambitions to further develop the current Farm Excellence programme which cascades good practice and shares best ways of working with farmers and growers.

Rebecca also discusses the introduction of the Farm 360 programme planned to be rolled out in 2021.

Find out about the strategy and change programme: ahdb.org.uk/strategy

Find out about Farm Excellence: ahdb.org.uk/farm-excellence

 

In this episode we speak to three levy payers about areas of AHDB’s most important and valuable work: marketing, storage and SPot farms. 

The growers ask questions and challenge the work being done by AHDB.

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Watch previous webinars - Events Achieve

Find out who is your local KE Manager - Meet the team

Lean more about the marketing work we do - Love potatoes website

Learn more about the storage work we do - Storage Hub

Learn more about SPot farms - SPot farms page