Episodi

  • Tim Orlando-Reep | Balancing beef, biodiversity and carbon credits

    Tim Orlando-Reep | Balancing beef, biodiversity and carbon credits
    Feb 17 2026
    In this episode of the Ideas That Grow Podcast, 2025 Kellogg Scholar Tim Orlando-Reep shares how his Waikato beef farm integrates carbon forestry, biodiversity ambitions and catchment collaboration.
    While pine credits stack up financially, his research through the Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme explores how native plantings can balance profitability with environmental impacts.
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    16 min
  • Lisa Rogers | Building leadership in agriculture

    Lisa Rogers | Building leadership in agriculture
    Dec 16 2025
    In this episode of Ideas That Grow, Farmers Weekly managing editor Bryan Gibson speaks with Lisa Rogers, outgoing CEO of Rural Leaders.

    Lisa reflects on her nine-year tenure, the evolution of Rural Leaders, and the enduring impact of flagship programmes like Kellogg and Nuffield.

    She explores how leadership development, collaboration, and a strong alumni network have helped shape confident, capable leaders across New Zealand’s food and fibre sector.
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    16 min
  • Victoria Westbrooke |Connecting agribusiness and policy professionals with farming

    Victoria Westbrooke |Connecting agribusiness and policy professionals with farming
    Nov 18 2025
    In this episode of Ideas That Grow, Bryan Gibson, Farmers Weekly Managing Editor, talks to Dr. Victoria Westbrooke, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Land Management and Systems at Lincoln University.

    Victoria discusses the Engage Programme, a three-day professional development initiative run in partnership between Lincoln University and Rural Leaders, designed to bridge the gap between agribusiness professionals and on-farm realities.Victoria offers insight into why providing contextual farm knowledge to technology specialists, researchers, environmental professionals, and policy-makers is crucial for helping them apply their expertise effectively.
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    16 min
  • Richard Green |Time to think differently about our food and fibre value chains

    Richard Green |Time to think differently about our food and fibre value chains
    Oct 9 2025
    In this episode of Ideas That Grow, Bryan Gibson, Farmers Weekly managing editor, talks to Richard Green, farmer, director and 2025 Value Chain Innovation Programme alum.

    Richard discusses his background and his Value Chain Innovation Programme experience, and offers keen insight into why understanding value chains and value chain models is so important for anyone wanting to take advantage of the opportunities New Zealand Inc. and farming have to integrate our value chains and think globally.
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    16 min
  • Thomas Holmes | Insight into arable’s future in Canterbury

    Thomas Holmes | Insight into arable’s future in Canterbury
    Sep 10 2025
    Thomas Holmes is an arable farmer and a 2024 Kellogg Scholar. In this podcast he talks to Bryan Gibson, Farmers Weekly managing editor, about his family farm’s evolution, overseas experience, his Kellogg research report and his Kellogg experience.
    Thomas unpacks his report’s ‘what next’ view of arable farming in Canterbury. He discusses profitability challenges, diversification, and integration with other sectors. Thomas advocates collaboration, mindset change, and leadership from younger farmers to adapt to climate, market, and technological shifts.
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    18 min
  • Richard Dawkins | A farmer’s rural leadership journey

    Richard Dawkins | A farmer’s rural leadership journey
    Jul 23 2025
    In this episode of Ideas That Grow, Bryan Gibson, Farmers Weekly managing editor, talks to Richard Dawkins, 2023 Kellogg Scholar and Marlborough sheep and beef farmer. He is also the new meat and wool chair for Federated Farmers.

    Richard discusses his family’s diverse 602-hectare farm operation, which includes sheep, cattle, forestry, and viticulture. He shares his experiences abroad and how returning home reignited his passion for farming. He also talks about his Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme journey and research on lamb and ewe mortality, emphasising the need for better data and body condition scoring.

    The discussion also covers leadership, collaboration, and the importance of timing when engaging in personal development.
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    16 min
  • Hugh Ritchie | Leadership, innovating in arable – and Nuffield

    Hugh Ritchie | Leadership, innovating in arable – and Nuffield
    Jun 16 2025
    In this podcast, Hugh Ritchie, 2000 Nuffield Scholar and Hawke’s Bay farmer, shares his leadership journey and insights with Farmers Weekly managing editor Bryan Gibson.

    Hugh discusses growing Drumpeel Farms into a diverse 2000-hectare operation, the impact of his Nuffield experience on his personal growth, and on irrigation and strip tillage and the need for better water infrastructure.

    He emphasises collaboration, global learning, and the importance of leadership development as vital to strengthening NZ’s food and fibre future.
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    14 min
  • Jenni Vernon | Underestimating the power of face-to-face communication

    Jenni Vernon | Underestimating the power of face-to-face communication
    May 6 2025
    Jenni Vernon, 1994 Nuffield Scholar, farmer and director, talks to Farmers Weekly managing editor Bryan Gibson about her leadership journey, her Nuffield experience, research, and on not underestimating the power of face-to-face communication in a sometimes-disconnected social media age.
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    16 min