McIvor moving to OSPRI
Beef + Lamb New Zealand chief executive for the past eight years, Sam McIvor is heading for new pastures at Ospri, which runs NZ’s integrated animal disease management and traceability service.
Beef + Lamb NZ (B+LNZ) board chair Andrew Morrison has lost his board seat to Southland sheep and beef farmer Geoffrey Young.
In the election, part of the 2023 B+LNZ Annual Meeting process, Young received 8,777 weighted votes while Morrison received 6,587 votes.
Turnout in the Southern South Island director election, in an electorate which covers Southland and Clutha, was 36%.
Morrison’s term will conclude at the end of the B+LNZ annual meeting in New Plymouth on Thursday 30 March and the board will elect a new chair following the meeting.
The meeting will also mark the conclusion of Morrison’s term with the New Zealand Meat Board which will subsequently elect a new chair.
Meanwhile, the farmer director election in the Eastern North Island electorate has been postponed due to disruptions caused by Cyclone Gabrielle.
A new process and deadline for voting for the ENI farmer director role will be announced following the Annual Meeting.
Current ENI director George Tatham, who planned to stand down after nine years, will continue in the role until the rescheduled election is completed.
South Waikato farm manager Ben Purua’s amazing transformation from gang life to milking cows was rewarded with the Ahuwhenua Young Maori Farmer award last night.
Bankers have been making record profits in the last few years, but those aren’t the only records they’ve been breaking, says Federated Farmers vice president Richard McIntyre.
The 2023-24 season has been a roller coaster ride for Waikato dairy farmers, according to Federated Farmers dairy section chair, Mathew Zonderop.
Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) director general Ray Smith says job cuts announced this morning will not impact the way the Ministry is organised or merge business units.
Scales Corporation is acquiring a number of orchard assets from Bostock Group.
Family and solidarity shone through at the 75 years of Ferdon sale in Otorohanga last month.