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Opinion: Fixed levies and NFU/AHDB cosiness irks >More in © Tim Scrivener The people – well, in this case the 61% of the UK’s horticultural levy-payers who voted to abolish the AHDB’s £8.4m horticultural levy – have spoken. The levy must go. So what now for the AHDB? First, of course, Defra secretary George Eustice must decide on whether to honour the horticultural levy ballot. The AHDB, shamefully, is attempting to undermine the vote by suggesting that the votes of producers who pay more levy could be “weighted” as more ...

Almost two thirds of growers have said a resounding 'no' to the statutory levy on horticulture.

Many growers 'feel disengaged' with AHDB Horticulture, NFU says 17 February 2021 | 61% of respondents to the AHDB Horticulture levy ballot voted to discontinue the levy Many growers feel 'disappointed or disengaged' with how their AHDB Horticulture levy is being spent, the NFU has said. A majority of growers have voted against the continuation of AHDB's statutory horticulture levy, casting further doubt on its future. The ballot looked at the future existence of AHDB Horticulture and the work it sets out to deliver on behalf of UK growers. It asked levy payers: 'Do you agree that the statuto...

Supermarket warnings of food shortages caused by staff sickness have recently hit the headlines. But could we avoid these worries if we grew and produced more food in the UK?

By Henry Sandercock2021-01-26T12:47:00+00:00 To cover the minimum wage increases alone would require price rises of between 9% to 19% for growers of crops especially reliant on seasonal workers Fruit & veg growers could be forced to move production abroad unless labour cost increases of up to 50% since 2016 are better reflected in prices, the NFU has warned. The warning has come off the back of a report prepared for the NFU by farm business consultancy Andersons, which found minimum wage increases had added 34.2% to costs in the past five years. Extra increases had come as a result of a dec...