Staff.
MRB are a team of eight independent farm consultants, one farm account administrator and one office staff. Our consultants all have practical farming experience and varying fields of expertise, all are members of the New Zealand Institute of Primary Industry Management. Detailed experience and contact details are available in the resumes.
Our Team
Andrew Macfarlane
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| Resume Andrew Macfarlane.pdf |
Andrew has a background of advice and practical application across all farming sectors. His areas of expertise include rural business management, rural sector governance, strategic advice in the NZ & global context, animal & crop production systems, irrigation systems & development, family & business succession, environmental management and farm landscapes.
Jeremy Savage
0274 331 069
| Resume Jeremy Savage.pdf |
Jeremy’s professional focus is on the dairy sector in Canterbury and Tasman areas. His areas of expertise include developing monitoring systems with clients focused on turning grass into milk into profit, farm management, farm ownership structures and succession, business management, dairy management and production systems & irrigation systems.
Anton Nicholls
0275 860 246
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Anton has worked extensively within the arable industry throughout NZ. His areas of expertise cover specialist grain & seed crop management, arable farm business management, full financial analysis, strategic planning, machinery and irrigation costings, project management for arable industry stakeholders and presentations & facilitation of workshops & training courses to farmers and industry.
Mark Everest
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| Resume Mark Everest.pdf |
Marks focus is helping generate a better understanding of farm management systems and irrigation as an integrated package across dairy, sheep, beef, deer and cropping farms to help improve productivity. His areas of expertise include farm management, irrigation and stock water design and evaluation and he is an IrriCad (computer assisted irrigation design) approved programme user.
Trevor Gee
021 227 6476
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Trevor has managed and developed a variety of different dairy farming systems in New Zealand, Ireland, and the UK. He has an excellent understanding of grassland management for profitable milk production. Trevor has a real passion for the dairy industry with areas of expertise in pasture management, reproduction, systems analysis and group facilitation.
Jamie Gordon
027 230 6660
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Jamie operates primarily in the sheep, beef and deer sector and has had extensive experience managing intensive feedlot and livestock farming systems as well as involvement in the red meat industry and international beef markets. His areas of expertise include business management, intensive livestock production systems and genetics.
Peter Ayers
027 315 4515
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Peter has extensive experience with nutrient management and agronomy. His understanding of farming systems especially arable, leads to a unique position of offering complete Overseer nutrient budgets, backed with the understanding of farming system dynamics and drivers of profitability.
Peters personable approach to dealing with farming clients, means environmental compliance is completed with the best outcome for the farming business.
Peters personable approach to dealing with farming clients, means environmental compliance is completed with the best outcome for the farming business.
Eve Robinson
0272 363 428
Eve specialises in nutrient management and farm environment plans for farmer clients.
By integrating her skills with MRB farm consultants, she aims to provide environmental help to farmers, ensuring they are compliant with everchanging regional and national laws.
Eve is passionate about helping clients understand their nutrient budgeting and farm environment plans. Hence making it possible to use these legislative tools to their benefit, helping make the farm more profitable, and environmentally sustainable in unison.
By integrating her skills with MRB farm consultants, she aims to provide environmental help to farmers, ensuring they are compliant with everchanging regional and national laws.
Eve is passionate about helping clients understand their nutrient budgeting and farm environment plans. Hence making it possible to use these legislative tools to their benefit, helping make the farm more profitable, and environmentally sustainable in unison.
Office and Farm Accounts Administration Team
Christine Bellringer
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Barb MacGregor
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