Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

"The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is a statutory levy board, funded by farmers, growers and others in the supply chain and managed as an independent organisation (independent of both commercial industry and of Government). ...

"There is also one commercially trading subsidiary within the AHDB group called Meat & Livestock Commercial Services Limited (MLCSL). It is a wholly owned subsidiary of AHDB and run as a separate company, limited by guarantee, supplying carcase classification and other services primarily to the meat and livestock sectors. All its costs are fully accounted for within the company and it returns any profits to AHDB to supplement levy funds.

"Collectively, taking both the levy-funded and commercial operations plus grants, AHDB has an income in excess of £60 million and employs some 450 people (320 of these are levy-funded posts). More detailed income and budgetting information is contained in the back of the Corporate Plan."

Board
Accessed April 2013:


 * Chairman: John Godfrey CBE
 * Lorraine Clinton
 * Tim Kelly
 * Will Lifford
 * John Cross, EBLEX (beef and lamb, England)
 * Jonathan Tipples, HGCA (cereals and oilseeds, UK)
 * Neil Bragg, HDC (horticulture, GB)
 * Tim Bennett, DairyCo (milk, GB)
 * Stewart Houston CBE, BPEX (pigs, England)
 * David Piccaver, Potato Council (Potatoes, GB)

Contact
Web: http://www.ahdb.org.uk

Related Sourcewatch
Meat and Livestock Commission
 * David Lewis (lobbyist)
 * Good Relations
 * Helen Browning
 * Peter Barr