In this latest Rural Leaders Ideas That Grow Podcast, 2025 Kellogg Scholar Tim Orlando-Reep shares how his Waikato beef farm integrates carbon forestry, biodiversity ambitions and catchment collaboration.
Rural Leaders are pleased to share the reports from Kellogg Programme Two 2025 graduates.
This Ideas that Grow Podcast features Lisa Rogers, outgoing CEO of Rural Leaders. Lisa discusses the Trust’s history, leadership and a scholar’s potential.
Rural Leaders are pleased to share the reports from Kellogg Programme Two 2025 graduates.
Alumni in the Spotlight – Geoffrey Neilson, Emma Crutchley, Phoebe Scherer, Dan Eb, Dan Steele, Jon Pemberton and more.
Victoria Westbrooke discusses the Engage programme, bridging agribusiness professionals with on-farm realities through Lincoln University and Rural Leaders.
Alumni in the Spotlight – Clare Bradley, Jared Clarke, Kelly Heckler, Tracey Perkins, Erica van Reenen, Dr Jordi Hoult
In this episode of Ideas That Grow, Bryan Gibson, Farmers Weekly Managing Editor, talks to Richard Green, farmer, director and 2025 Value Chain Innovation Programme alum.
Richard discusses his background and his Value Chain Innovation Programme experience.
Richard offers keen insight into why understanding value chains and value chain models is so important for anyone wanting to take advantage of the opportunities New Zealand Inc. and farming have to integrate our value chains and think globally.
Alumni in the Spotlight: Shannon Harnett, Steve Sterne, Simon Cook, Tracy Brown, Phil Weir
Shannon Harnett shares insights on her recent AI learning experience.
Thomas Holmes is an arable farmer and a 2024 Kellogg Scholar. In this podcast he talks to Bryan Gibson, Farmers Weekly Managing Editor about his family farm’s evolution, overseas experience, his Kellogg research report and his Kellogg experience.vThomas unpacks his report’s ‘what next’ view of arable farming in Canterbury.
He discusses profitability challenges, diversification, and integration with other sectors. Thomas advocates collaboration, mindset change, and leadership from younger farmers to adapt to climate, market, and technological shifts.
In this podcast, Hamish Gow discusses The Value Chain Innovation Programme, a 5-day tour through New Zealand’s dairy, kiwifruit, apple and red meat sectors, helping participants understand how value is created, captured and shared across agricultural value chains.
Alumni in the Spotlight: Marise James, Carlos Bagrie, Iain Inglis, Sarah How and Amber Carpenter.
In this podcast, Richard Dawkins discusses his family’s diverse 602-hectare farm operation, which includes sheep, cattle, forestry, and viticulture. He shares his experiences abroad and how returning home reignited his passion for farming.
Richard speaks about his Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme journey and research on lamb and ewe mortality, emphasising the need for better data and body condition scoring.
Jack Cocks speaks about his time as Associate Trustee on the Rural Leaders board.
Hugh Jackson wins 2025 FMG Young Farmer of the Year and a place on the Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme.
The NZRLT is pleased to announce the appointment of Katie Rodwell to the board as Associate Trustee. Katie replaces outgoing Associate Trustee Jack Cocks. The Associate Trustee role is for one year.
In this podcast, Hugh Ritchie, 2000 Nuffield Scholar and Hawke’s Bay farmer, shares his leadership journey and insights with Bryan Gibson, Farmers Weekly Managing Editor.
Hugh discusses growing Drumpeel Farms into a diverse 2000-hectare operation, the impact of his Nuffield experience on his personal growth, and on irrigation and strip tillage and the need for better water infrastructure. Hugh emphasises collaboration, global learning, and the importance of leadership development as vital to strengthening NZ’s food and fibre future.
Rural Leaders, in partnership with PwC New Zealand, have piloted a new concept: the Future Food and Fibre Leaders Pulse Check. It’s a snapshot of what’s top of mind for the latest Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme cohort, captured through a workshop facilitated by PwC and Rural Leaders earlier this year.
Alumni in the Spotlight: Blake Irving Kellogg Scholar, Jenna Smith and John Foley Nuffield Scholars.
Kellogg credentialisation offers programme participants the opportunity to receive a Post Graduate Certificate in Commerce when completing Kellogg.
Rural Leaders are pleased to present the final reports for the 2024 Nuffield New Zealand Farming Scholars. Reports are from Carlos Bagrie, Rachel Baker, Jenna Smith and Peter Templeton.
For eight years Dr Scott Champion has been a key figure in the development of leaders in food and fibre. With the New Zealand Rural Leadership Trust he has made a direct impression on over 300 leaders on the Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme and many more through Nuffield, Engage and the HortNZ Leadership Programme.
The result of work commissioned by Food and Fibre CoVE and conducted by Rural Leaders, MyLead brings the sector’s leadership development programmes together into one place.
