{"id":4816,"date":"2023-06-02T18:49:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T18:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seale-hayne.com\/?page_id=4816"},"modified":"2024-10-25T12:36:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T12:36:24","slug":"misc-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/seale-hayne.com\/?page_id=4816","title":{"rendered":"Misc Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
This is an area where a variety of articles from the archives will be reproduced on an ‘as and when’ basis. It is hoped you find them interesting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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SHAC and NAASA and ADAS and MAFF<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"spacer\"<\/td>\n\"spacer\"<\/td>\nOur late Vice-Chairman John Simpson (S-H 1959) was encouraged last year to see if he could find out how many Seale-Hayne students had been recruited into the various incarnations of the government advisory services over the years.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>John spent many hours following up this research and presented a draft document for our Reunion Weekend in October 2022. A few names and notes were added by members during the Sunday morning visit to Seale-Hayne where John\u2019s list was on display, but sadly, John passed away unexpectedly before he could complete his work. We are pleased to print John\u2019s initial report and lists.<\/p>\n

The NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY SERVICE (NAAS) was set up in 1945 following the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act of 1944. The service was first promoted within Government in 1943 culminating in the 1944 Act going through Parliament. Food was in desperately short supply, and the Government was looking at ways of increasing production and bringing science into farming.<\/p>\n

Between the wars, advisory work had been carried out by County Councils and the Agricultural departments of Universities and Colleges. They were all assimilated into NAAS when it was started up in 1946, set up as a result of the growing awareness during the war of the significance of technical advances in improving agricultural production.<\/p>\n

The service was organised in eight regions with about 500 general advisors and specialists within counties. The service provided free technical information to farmers and organised free lectures and demonstrations. Advisers also assisted with improvement grant applications. Research and development was carried out on Experimental Husbandry Farms and Horticulture Stations. As early as the 1950s, farm management and a modern business approach to farming were being encouraged and in 1963, a farm management department was established within NAAS and techniques developed for whole farm analysis and individual crop and livestock costing.<\/p>\n

\"HND<\/a>The name was changed in 1971 to the AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ADVISORY SERVICE (ADAS).<\/span><\/p>\n

Seale-Hayne College provided such services but the work was transferred to Staplake Mount at Starcross soon after the creation of NAAS.<\/p>\n

This then became the sub-regional office of NAAS covering Devon and Cornwall and housed the sub-regional specialists and laboratories. Staplake Mount was closed in the 1980s when ADAS was being prepared for privatisation.<\/p>\n

The Veterinary Investigation Centre in an adjacent building still operates. The senior veterinary investigation officer in charge at Starcross also acted as the veterinary lecturer for the CDA course.<\/p>\n

The farm Management post-diploma course at Seale-Hayne was set up in 1954 under the direction of H T Williams, Bursar and Vice-Principal and former head of Economics at MAFF with the remit to train students who would be suitable as Advisors in ADAS.<\/p>\n

The Principal, Dr H I Moore, was looking to widen the courses offered at Seale-Hayne and ensure that there was a market for Farm Management diploma students.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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The Sealehaynian Magazine No 77, Trinity MCMLIX (1959) reported on page 59:<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"spacer\"<\/td>\n\"spacer\"<\/td>\nAddressing the Agricultural Education Association in London on the question of training for farming, the Principal (Prof H I Moore) said: –<\/em><\/p>\n

“It is evident to clear-thinking people that the time has come when the teaching of agriculture for intending farmers and those intimately associated with farmers, such as advisory officers in the N.A.A.S. and commercial world, should be left to Colleges who have proved in the last ten years that they can do it very efficiently.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“Training for farming itself is very specialised and essentially technological in character. Farming, complicated as it is now, needs technologists as much as any other industry. I have interpreted the word technologist as one capable of applying the finding of scientists and research workers to the practical tasks of food production. In my view it is not only farmers who need a technological training but also Advisory Officers and General Advisors of the N.A.A.S., the Colonial Service and commercial firms. Advisory Officers meet farmers in all circumstances on their own ground, and they need first and foremost, to win the confidence of the farmer. The capacity to do this is provided by a sound practical training. A good personality and the ability to be adaptable and equally at home with the squire as with the smallest small farmer is also necessary and our Colleges are large enough alive enough to turn out this kind of person and this is our aim.<\/em><\/p>\n

For these reasons I contend that in the general advisory field our best students are superior to the ordinary B.Sc. (Agriculture) product of our Universities.”<\/em><\/p>\n

It is interesting to note that many NAAS\/ADAS advisers as well as University, College and Farm Institute staff were members of the Agricultural Education Association. John Simpson was Chairman of the AEA Executive Committee for four years in the 1980s and was succeeded by Dr Fred Harper, Vice Principal at Harper Adams at that time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Farm Management course students who joined NAAS\/ADAS<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"spacer\"<\/td>\n\"spacer\"<\/td>\nThe majority of people joined directly from College, some a few years later after working in the commercial sector or on farms. Others only worked for NAAS for a relatively short time before typically returning to the family farm.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Seale-Hayne students who joined MAFF, and students who joined NAAS or ADAS before or after the farm management course commenced.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Name:<\/th>Notes and source of data:<\/th><\/td>Name:<\/th>Notes and source of data:<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
ACWORTH - Sue DHA<\/td>Tony Graham<\/td><\/td>BARTON - Andrew 59<\/td>MAFF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BARTLETT - David 65<\/td>Writtle\/NIAE<\/td><\/td>BOLT - W D (Bill) 39<\/td>Knew personally<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BOYER - R.S. 39-41<\/td>Reg FM Bristol. Knew personally<\/td><\/td>BOLITHO - Hilary. 30s NDD\t<\/td>Milk Service\/DHAO. Knew personally<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BRIDGES - Mike 66-68 MAFF<\/td>Field Officer himself<\/td><\/td>BROWN - Jack 30s<\/td>Knew personally<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CARTER - John 47<\/td>Late entrant to NAAS<\/td><\/td>CAVELL - Trish (nee Bowtell) 61-64<\/td>Mag 03 p33. Knew personally<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
COPEMAN (Nee MADDOCK) 72<\/td>NDD Mag 14 p57<\/td><\/td>COOK - Clive 63-65<\/td>NDD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CORNISH - E 39-41<\/td>NAAS 1947. Hortic Mag 92\/93 p27<\/td><\/td>CROMARTY - Cathy 69<\/td>NDD. Mag 14 p56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DAVIES - Eric 40s or early 50s<\/td>Knew personally<\/td><\/td>DIETSCH - John 69-73<\/td>Animal Health Officer. Mag 90 p36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DINES - Dan 98\t<\/td>Tony Graham & Mag 01 p31<\/td><\/td>DONEY - Dick 30s\t<\/td>Knew personally<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DYMOND - Pat DHA<\/td>Tony Graham<\/td><\/td>EMMERSON - Sid 55-58<\/td>ADAS Equine Adviser. Knew personally<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EMERY - Charles 52<\/td>Mag 95\/96. Knew personally<\/td><\/td>FURZE - Gerald 30s<\/td>Knew personally. Starcross<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GRAHAM - Rhoda 63-66<\/td>Milk Lab<\/td><\/td>GRIFFITH - Gwyneth 65-68<\/td>NDA+FM.Drainage Officer. Jan Sturmer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GILES - Neil 95<\/td>DHAO<\/td><\/td>GRIMES - Hilary MAFF<\/td>Mag 96\/97<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GRIMSHAW - Frank 50-52<\/td>Durham. Knew personally<\/td><\/td>HAESLER - Terry 39<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HARPER \u2013 Paul<\/td>Mag 22. Mervyn Edwards. Knew him<\/td><\/td>HAWKSLEY - Nick 66-69<\/td>DHAO. Drs Practice Manager Somerset<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HODSON \u2013 Bill<\/td>Entomologist, Reading Mag 92\/3 p27<\/td><\/td>HOLMES - Peter 30s<\/td>CAO Devon. Knew personally<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HOSKEN - EE 51<\/td>Mag 95\/96. Knew personally<\/td><\/td>HUGHES - George 30s<\/td>CAO Cornwall. Knew personally<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HULL - Peter. 68<\/td>Joined as Mech AO 79 Mag 13 p62<\/td><\/td>JAMES - Philip J 47<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
JENKINS - A C -31<\/td><\/td><\/td>KEIGHLEY - Frank 52-55<\/td>NDA\/NDD Mag 15 p50\/Mag 03 p38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LESTER-CARD - Tony 46-48<\/td>Somerset AAO. Knew personally<\/td><\/td>LILLEY - AHR 30s<\/td>Dep CAO Dorset<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LISTER - Robert 95?<\/td>ADAS & NatWest Maq99 p47.<\/td><\/td>MANNS \u2013 David<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MANSFIELD - George 44-46<\/td>LHAO. Knew personally<\/td><\/td>MORRISON - Nick 96?<\/td>Mag 99, Royal Show list.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MULHOLLAND - Robin 50s<\/td>Knew personally<\/td><\/td>NEWELL \u2013 Lavinia<\/td>DHAO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ORFORD - Karen 93<\/td>MAFF<\/td><\/td>NIELSON - Cedric 51-54<\/td>DHAO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PECK - Bill 45-47<\/td>NDA 47. Glos.<\/td><\/td>LISTER - Robert 95?<\/td>LHAO. Knew personally<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MANNS \u2013 David<\/td>Mag 99, Royal Show list.<\/td><\/td>PEERS \u2013 Dick<\/td>DHAO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ROBERTSON \u2013 John<\/td>Mag '22 p48<\/td><\/td>ROSE-GUYERE - Judy<\/td>Mag 2018 p52 Later ordained<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SALISBURY - Geraldine<\/td>Milk Officer\/DHAO\/Truro<\/td><\/td>SAVORY - Maggie 77<\/td>Inc ADAS in career Mag 13 p61-62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SCOTT \u2013 Pamela<\/td>MAFF Research Mag 2018 p56<\/td><\/td>SELWOOD - Geoff 48<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SHARMAN - David 64-67<\/td>Mag 95\/96<\/td><\/td>SHARPLES - Christine<\/td>Milk Officer\/DHAO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SMITH \u2013 Graham<\/td><\/td><\/td>STOTHARD - Karen 94<\/td>Mag 95\/96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
STEVENS - Gordon Early 50s<\/td>Bude Cornwall<\/td><\/td>STURMER - Jan (nee Baylis)<\/td>Milk Officer\/DHAO Tavistock<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TAYLOR - Eileen (nee Ponting)<\/td>DHAO<\/td><\/td>TEATHER - Peter 63 MAFF London<\/td>Mag 94\/95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
UPTON - John Early 50s<\/td>Cornwall\/Dorset\/Bristol<\/td><\/td>WAITE - Rupert 96<\/td>MAFF Inspector Mag 00 p37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WALSH - David 99<\/td>MAFF Lewes<\/td><\/td>WAKEFIELD \u2013 John<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WILLCOCKS - Jack. JP<\/td>Liscombe Dir. Knew personally<\/td><\/td>WOODS - Helen (nee Barnett) 70<\/td>DEFRA. Mag 12 p33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an area where a variety of articles from the archives will be reproduced on an ‘as and when’ basis. It is hoped you find them interesting. SHAC and NAASA and ADAS and MAFF Our late Vice-Chairman John Simpson (S-H 1959) was encouraged last year to see if he could find out how many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4816","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seale-hayne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seale-hayne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seale-hayne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seale-hayne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seale-hayne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/seale-hayne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5679,"href":"https:\/\/seale-hayne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4816\/revisions\/5679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seale-hayne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}