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Australian rural services company Elders has downplayed media speculation it is raising funds for a buyout of New Zealand’s largest agricultural services company PGG Wrightson (PGW).

CP Wool is enjoying strong growth, with an increase in market share, says its new chairman, South Otago farmer Howie Gardner.

Stu Chapman started his working life as a dairy farmer in Waikato but after contracting leptospirosis he was advised to get away from cattle. That sent him to the other side of the ag sector – the commercial side. 

Grass-fed meat out of New Zealand is the “caviar of the future”, says Stu Chapman, who stepped down this month as Elders NZ managing director after 21 years with the company.

Longtime Elders New Zealand managing director Stu Chapman will later this month leave the business he started.

Elders Primary Wool is changing its brand name to CP Wool from September 2015.

THE SALE OF the Elders New Zealand (Elders) business to South Island based Carr Group has been completed following the sale announcement on June 20.

ELDERS Rural Services NZ is now 100% New Zealand owned and controlled – following its purchase by Ashburton-based agribusiness company the Carr Group.