2026 Nuffield NZ Farming Scholarship. Apply by 17 August 2025. Read More...
Apply for 2026 Nuffield NZ Farming Scholarship by 17 August 2025. More details...
The Rural Reader – Book reviews by Dr Patrick Aldwell. Late in 2022, with the advent of ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence (AI) took a great leap into our everyday lives, especially in education. ChatGPT, one of several generative chatbots, is just one of many AI applications that more and more of us use every day. Kissinger
Tragedy at Pike River. How and why the 29 men died. Rebecca MacFie (2013) Rebecca MacFie, one of New Zealand’s leading investigative journalists, has produced what is arguably a master class in governance – as it should not be practised. Updated in 2022, this gripping and at times frustrating read, backed by intensive research of
On summing up the Summit and Triennial Murray King, Rural Leaders’ Summit Chair said, “We couldn’t have hoped for a stronger group of people to share this experience with. From our hosts to our delegates, and from our Summit speakers to those who attended the Nuffield Triennial Conference and the Rural Leaders’ Summit. It was an
By the time 2023 Rural Leaders Agribusiness Summit attendees heard from Devry Boughner Vorwerk, she had spent two days visiting local farming operations and attending functions on the Nuffield Triennial Conference’s opening weekend. There was also an interview with Rural Exchange – REX too. As Keynote Speaker at Monday’s Summit, Devry helped set the tone
We share a quick breakdown of upcoming key moments for Nuffield, including travel for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 Nuffield Scholars.
In August 2022, The Food and Fibre Centre of Vocational Excellence (FFCoVE) requested the New Zealand Rural Leadership Trust conduct research into the current state of leader development in the Food and Fibre sector.
Olivia joins Kate Scott, Chair, Michael Tayler, Rebecca Hyde and Craig Mckenzie, Trustees, and Hamish Fraser, Independent Trustee.
On Monday, 27 March 2023, The Christchurch Town Hall will see food and fibre leaders, agribusiness professionals and growers from all over New Zealand, get together with international agriculture delegates and speakers.
Under Chris’s leadership, characterised by strong purpose and gentle (but persuasive) direction, the Rural Leaders team have enjoyed a busy, effective and stimulating period of achievement.
In this podcast Dr Scott Champion talks about his own leadership journey, on the power of gaining other’s perspectives, and he talks about upcoming Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme.
The reports traverse topics as wide and timely as horticultural futures, social impacts on Iwi, the potential for impact investing, technical production and profitability topics.
Kate Scott talks about why the 2023 Rural Leaders Agribusiness Summit’s timing and offering should be of high value to farmers, producers, and agribusiness professionals. Kate is a 2018 Nuffield Scholar and works at the intersection of farming, the environment and regulation.
Rebecca Hyde is better placed than most to see the differences between collaboration, cooperation and the value of finding common ground when it comes to farming and the environment. It’s her job. She discusses her work and provides a useful ‘101’ on what collaboration looks like overseas and closer to home – both inside and outside of agriculture.
Current Board of Trustees with 2023 Nuffield New Zealand Farming Scholars, November 2022. The Board of the New Zealand Rural Leadership Trust (NZRLT) is seeking applications for an Associate Trustee. This appointment is for 12 months starting February 2023 and finishing in February 2024. The NZRLT Board meets six times per year and holds additional
Rural Leaders and Lincoln University have just wrapped up a collaborative delivery of The Value Chain Innovation Programme, a seven-day bus tour of New Zealand’s four major sectors: dairy, red meat, kiwifruit, and apples. A fully subscribed programme of 22 students, including senior growers, farmers, consultants, industry professionals and government took part in this North
Dame Jenny discusses the need to keep challenging industry to push young people forward to develop as leaders and in turn ensure the future strength of our political and social environments. There’s insight too on leadership in the regulatory environment, the rural urban divide and how farmers and growers need to share more about the positive ways in which agriculture responds to the concerns urban communities have.
Katie Vickers, a 2019 Kellogg Scholar, is on a mission to help regenerate our planet by influencing business practice to close the gap between purpose, people, and profit.
Katie talks to Bryan Gibson from Farmer’s Weekly about how her Kellogg research, beliefs, and her role as Sustainability Manager at Rabobank, are going some way to helping achieve that.
Ben Todhunter, a 2006 Nuffield Scholar, talks about his family’s high country station Cleardale, integrating conservation into the operation and into farming systems. Ben also touches on his Nuffield study and how this has informed his own approach to conservation.
The 2023 Rural Leaders Agribusiness Summit theme ‘Forefront’ reflects focus on the businesses making change and providing solutions to some of the sector’s biggest challenges and opportunities. The Summit seeks to promote global vision, leadership and innovation by demonstrating some of the practical solutions shown to mitigate the challenges facing agribusiness today. The Summit begins
On Wednesday evening Rural Leaders hosted the 2022 Nuffield New Zealand Farming Scholarship Awards in Wellington. This was an opportunity to formally award scholarships to Parmindar Singh, Lucie Douma and Anthony Taueki – a year later than planned. While it was a smaller occasion than it might have been, it was no less important. Hon.
A message from our CEO Chris Parsons, MNZM, DSD, CMinstD. As the year flies by all too fast, I thought it good to pause a moment to highlight a key development that we have been working on for just over a year and to acknowledge some of the achievements that Nuffield and Kellogg Scholars and
Lynsey Stratford has discovered farmers make a few assumptions that aren’t very helpful – like accepting the fact that work might be dangerous and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. As Lynsey explains, “There are changes we can make, but those assumptions and those mindsets have been deeply held for quite some time.”
1. Identify Nuffield’s goals. As simple as it sounds, applicants often don’t fully understand what the broader goals and objectives of Nuffield are. An application written with consideration to ‘giving back’ for example, will go a long way to increasing your chances of gaining an interview. You’ll ideally be able to show evidence of giving
Julian Raine is a 1997 Nuffield Scholar who quietly gets on with things worth shouting about. Julian runs a mixed Dairy and Horticulture operation and no matter what he’s producing, the one constant is innovation. From robots to getting back to milk in glass, Julian has an entrepreneur’s motivation and an innovator’s foresight.
