No stranger to leadership within the sector, Dr Scott Champion spent more than 7 years as Chief Executive Officer of Beef + Lamb NZ and has worked across tertiary education, innovative organisations in the private sector, and industry service delivery and advocacy for more than 20 years.

He talks with Bryan Gibson about his own background, his role leading the Kellogg Progamme, what participants should expect, as well as some further insight into some of the challenges the sector is facing and how the Kellogg programme can help participants gain perspective on some of these big issues.

Kate Scott is a 2018 Nuffield Scholar who works at the intersection of farming, the environment and regulation.

Kate talks to Bryan Gibson, Farmers Weekly Editor, about how and why the 2023 Rural Leaders Agribusiness Summit’s timing and offering should be of high value to farmers, producers and agribusiness, right now.

Rebecca Hyde is a 2017 Nuffield Scholar, a 2021 Kellogg Scholar, and a Farm Environment
Consultant. She 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.

Rebecca discusses what collaboration looks like overseas, both inside and outside of land
use, and on working with catchment groups here in Aotearoa New Zealand.

It’s an informative look at some of the nuanced, collaborative frameworks underpinning the
way we get things done.

Dame Jenny Shipley, former New Zealand Prime Minister and 1984 Kellogg Scholar, talks to
Bryan Gibson, Farmers Weekly Editor on leadership at the highest level and on leadership
pathways.

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.

Lynsey Stratford, 2021 Nuffield Scholar, talks to Bryan Gibson from Farmer’s Weekly. In this podcast, Lynsey unpacks her research and the paradox that while farmers care about their people, farms as workplaces are overrepresented in fatal accident and injury statistics. What can be done to improve this?

Julian Raine is a 1997 Nuffield Scholar who quietly gets on with things worth shouting about. In this podcast, Julian talks with Farmer’s Weekly Editor Bryan Gibson about his diverse operation, some of the challenges he faces and some of the innovations he’s making to meet them – including moving to robot-ready on horticultural sites. Julian also talks about his Nuffield travel, what he learned and how his research played a role in helping shape an industry.

Hamish Murray, 2019 Nuffield Scholar talks to Bryan Gibson from Farmers Weekly about how adversity and getting out of the way has helped both him and his team grow.

Kate Scott, 2018 Nuffield Scholar talks about her Nuffield journey, how the research she undertook has informed the work she does now in helping farmers tackle the regulatory environment, the pace of change, and sustainability.