Contacts

• Bachelor of Agricultural Science Degree ( Lincoln)
• Valuers Professional
• Registered Farm Consultant
• Registered Valuer

Administration

Jeanette Montgomery / Diane Davidson

Grant White : Dairy Consultant

Dr Anthony Taylor : Agricultural Engineer

Gary Rae : Agricultural Consultant

Member

Consultancy House Group
NZ Society of Farm Management
NZ Institute of Valuers
Agronomy Society of NZ

Agribusiness Consultants & Valuers normally operating in the Canterbury District of New Zealand.

MAIN ACTIVITIES

as per Agribuild ^TM workshops for BIZ Ministry of Commerce

Agribusiness Consultancy

full range of on farm consulting activities including Strategic Planning, Budgeting, Crop Consultancy, Soil Fertility, debt restructuring and arranging all aspects of dairy grazing.

Strategic Planning for Rural Businesses

full farm and rural servicing industry financing on behalf of clients.

full farm supervision service

Property Appraisals

for sale, purchase or lease

Valuations

for rural properties

Strong links through Consultancy House rural cooperative of Agribusiness Consultants also strengthens our client services.

Major role is in Agribusiness Training and have been contracted to run 23 workshops for BIZ targeting Rural Women in the South Island 1999/2000.

Is the name given to the comprehensive Business Strategic Planning workshops being run for Rural Women on behalf of BIZ.

A brief history.

2.1 CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Skilled, experienced, agribusiness consultant dealing with helping -

• Communities
• Organisations
• Businesses
• Individuals/Families

managing major change.

Major leadership roles in dealing with -

• Rural communities, as a consultant
• Organisations, as chairman of National Union/Director of National Business
• Businesses, local Power Board, commercial firms, university
• Farming families or individual farmers

accepting change, facilitating the change process.

2.2 CAREER SUMMARY

VERY EXPERIENCED AND QUALIFIED -

• Registered Farm Consultant
• Registered Valuer

nearly 30 years serving the rural community.

• Senior Loans appraiser in Rural Bank - 10 years
• Senior Farm Consultant, National Arable Manager, Advisory Board Member in MAF/Agriculture New Zealand - 15 years
• Managing Director own Agribusiness Consultancy and Valuation Business approximately five years

CHANGE MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE -

2.2.1 JAYCEES -

• Jaycee Senator
• Sixteen years, 1972-1988 running Personal Life Planning/Career Planning Workshops for community clubs and groups

2.2.2 MAF -

• Skilled negotiator/facilitator with many farm families going through debt reconstruction, exiting from farming and developing new careers 1986-1992.
• Instigator of "Farming To Win" career and personal planning two day workshops for farming couples, sponsored nationally by MAF Policy (Grant McFadden).
• Became Chairman of PSA Union when Government tried to force MAF Farm Consultants into a State Owned Enterprise.
• Renegotiated, on behalf of staff, establishment of highly commercial Agriculture New Zealand.
• Voted as one of two staff selected Advisory Board members on the Board of five appointed by Government to guide the establishment and running of Agriculture New Zealand - two years.
• Facilitator on the Job Mapping workshops run for staff of MAF throughout New Zealand. Personal and career replanning

2.2.3 COMMUNITY -

(a) Elected to become a trustee of the local Electric Power Board 1993-1995.

• Major community debate re privatisation vs Trust vs Co-operative vs Friendly Society.
• Two years involvement led to the establishment of a locally owned and operated Co-operative ownership structure for the Board.

(b) Tutor at Leadership/Motivation Seminars for Ashburton College Seventh Form Students - seven years.

2.2.4 BUSINESSES -

Facilitator of Business Strategic Planning Reports/Workshops for a range of agribusinesses, eg. -

• Individual farming families.
• Commercial companies.
• University.

2.2.5 INDIVIDUALS/FAMILIES -

• Farmers - coping with change.
• MAF - negotiating redundancies/career planning for staff.
• AgResearch - been appointed to be Counsellor/Mentor to staff recently being made redundant.

2.2.6 MYSELF -

• Overall career experience, as outlined above.
• Having to restructure my own farm devastated by floods 1986.
• Establishing own new business five years ago after redundancy from MAF.
• Raised a teenage family with my wife of 30 years, Jeanette.

David works as a partner in a Rural Agribusiness Consultancy Co-operative comprising -

David Montgomery

• Business coaching and training
• Specialist arable farm consultant
• Mortgage Broker
• Registered Valuer/Registered Farm Consultant
• Change management
• Business restructuring

Grant White

• Dairy specialist

Dr Anthony Taylor

• Agricultural engineer

Gary Rae

• Cropping and economic specialist