Staff
MRB are a team of eight independent farm consultants, one farm account administrator and one office person. 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, or click on their images below to send an email.
Our Team
Jeremy Savage
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Anton Nicholls
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Mark Everest
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jamie Gordon
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Jamie operates primarily in the sheep, beef and deer sector and has had extensive experience managing businesses involving intensive livestock and farming systems as well as involvement in the red meat industry and international beef markets. His areas of expertise include business management, strategic advice, farm system analysis and intensive livestock production systems.
Trevor Gee
trevor@mrb.co.nz
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.
Andy Macfarlane - Associate
andy@mrb.co.nz
027 423 3964
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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.
Peter Ayers
peter.ayers@mrb.co.nz
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
eve@mrb.co.nz
027 236 3428
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 ever changing regional and national laws.
Eve is passionate about helping clients understand their nutrient budgeting a nd 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 ever changing regional and national laws.
Eve is passionate about helping clients understand their nutrient budgeting a nd 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.
Katherine Townley
katherine@mrb.co.nz
021 073 0856
Katherine is excited to be helping farmers meet their environmental goals and obligations. From assisting with data curating and audit preparation, to preparing accurate and effective Nutrient Budgets and Farm Environment Plans. She brings a variety of hands-on farming experience to this work, including 5 years working on Mid Canterbury dairy farms, and has a prior background in administration. She is also the administrator for MRB’s Dairy Systems Monitoring program (DSM).
Office and Farm Accounts Administration Team
Christine Bellringer
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Barb MacGregor
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