Ryan O’Sullivan, 2017 Scholar Somewhat unsurprisingly, common themes have definitely emerged during the past year of travelling the globe and discussing agriculture with our fellow Scholars. The pastoral New Zealand agriculture sector has long been criticized for operating at the bulk commodity end of the market, be it frozen carcasses or brown bags of milk
The latest crop of primary sector emerging leaders have been revealed with six 2017 Nuffield Scholars announced by Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy at Parliament.
Learn more about the Nuffield experience by the people who have completed the programme.
“The record-setting exercise is the brain-child of healthy farming campaigner Ian Handcock who was responsible for the Farmstrong initiative, aimed to improve farmers’ mental and physical health. In 2013 Handcock’s Kellogg rural leadership project on dairy farmer health highlighted how sedentary the job had become, and its effect on farmers’ fitness.” https://farmersweekly.co.nz/section/dairy/view/no-bull-behind-record-milking-attempt
“The first ever gathering of Kellogg Alumni is being organised for May but it also notes the retirement of programme leader Dr Patrick Aldwell who has been involved in 21 courses since 1999. The former Dean of Commerce at Lincoln University, Aldwell has been replaced by former Beef and Lamb NZ chief executive Scott Champion.”
Jessie Chan-Dorman is a Kellogg Rural Leadership scholar, has completed a Fonterra governance programme and was the recipient of Canterbury’s Institute of Directors aspiring director award in 2014. And she was named 2017 Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year at the Dairy Women’s Network annual conference in Queenstown. https://farmersweekly.co.nz/section/dairy/view/giving-back-drives-award-winner
NZ Young Farmers chairman and recent Kellogg alumni Jason Te Brake will attend the Te Hono Movement Stanford Bootcamp in the United States after receiving the Emerging Primary Industries Scholarship. https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/94273240/young-farmers-chief-wins-scholarship-to-attend-stanford-bootcamp
Excellence in New Zealand’s sheep industry was celebrated in Southland with the annual Beef and Lamb New Zealand Sheep Industry Awards. https://www.odt.co.nz/business/family%E2%80%99s-vision-property-vindicated
Nadine Porter, 2017 Nuffield Scholar The Global Focus Programme is transformational – not only in personal development but also in the way you come to view New Zealand’s agri-food sector. USA For me my Africa GFP began in the United States in Delaware where we were shown what a cataclysmic mistake it has been to
Ryan O’Sullivan, 2017 Nuffield Scholar I was fortunate to be part of a relatively small group of 8 Nuffield scholars, of diverse farming backgrounds and visit 6 countries on the ‘Brazil GFP’. Countries visited were well developed or mostly developed in terms of their economies and agricultural industries and included Brazil, Mexico, US, Ireland, France
Jim Geltch, CEO Nuffield International: Applications invited by 31 July 2017
(April 1926 – March 2017) Reg was awarded a Nuffield Farming Scholarship in 1963. He travelled on his Scholarship during 1964, spending 6 months in the United Kingdom then the United States of America, looking at wheat and meat production. He took the opportunity to go to France looking at fodder radish, and sugar beet
Mathew Hocken, 2017 Nuffield Scholar While the Lions tour has arrived in NZ, I am about to leave again. It is halftime on my Nuffield study tour. For me it has been a pulsating first half full of excitement, education and by the end, exhaustion. It’s time to catch my breath, suck on an orange
David Kidd, 2017 Nuffield Scholar As part of my Global Focus Programme, I was fortunate enough to join scholars from Australia, Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, the Netherlands and Brazil on a six-and-a-half-week tour of Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, Israel, England and the US. The result of such an intense tour is a greater understanding of the
Rebecca Hyde, 2017 Nuffield Scholar I set off from Christchurch on the May 8th, 2017 to embark on a trip that would open my mind and change my views of how I perceived global agriculture and how we feed the world. I selected the India Global Focus Programme (GFP) as I’d travelled there 10 years
Jason Rolfe, 2017 Nuffield Scholar The China Global Focus Programme (GFP) group was one of the more diverse groups this year, with our group comprising of representatives from Australia, Ireland, Wales, Netherlands, England, South Africa, and myself from New Zealand. The GFP tour was a once in a lifetime experience made better by the diversity
Anne Hindson, August 2017 The countdown until the close of Nuffield applications for the 2018 scholarships has started with this year’s closing date on the 13th August, one week earlier than usual to allow more time for the selection process. The announcement of the successful scholars will be held on the 2nd November, at Parliament.
Those of you who have read the KPMG Agri Business Agenda will have noted the multiple references to leadership and its importance to the growth and sustainability of an innovative and resilient food and agri business sector for New Zealand. In his introduction, Minister Guy made particular mention of the investment made by MPI into
The latest ‘crop’ of emerging leaders have been announced by Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor. The five new NZ Nuffield scholars are: Simon Cook, Andy Elliot, Turi McFarlane, Solis Norton, Kate Scott
The new Rural leadsership consortium has been endorsed and advertising for a new CEO will begin soon.
David Kiss and Jason Rolfe, 2017 Nuffield Scholars England – The Triennial The Triennial was an amazing opportunity to catch-up with not only the other groups who were also travelling on their GFPs, but also to meet and interact with a range of scholars from all countries and years. They provided a fascinating insight into
Richard Fowler, 2016 Nuffield Scholar The hype and debate around synthetic food seems to keep ramping up with a continuous stream of articles in the farming papers and mentions from so called futurists, but when I attended the New Harvest 2017 conference in New York last month, I got the impression that the rhetoric and
Anne Hindson, November 2017 There has been lots going on since I last updated you in August. This is my summary of the key activities and the highlights of the year.Earlier this month we announced our 2018 Scholars. This edition follows up on our brief, pre-media announcement to you with photos and bios of the
Jessica Bensemann, 2016 Nuffield Scholar I am currently in Mexico City on a temporary assignment for four months as Acting Deputy Head of Mission in the New Zealand Embassy. It’s an interesting time to be in the region, with the recent conclusion of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and
