Agri-Business roles

You’ll be advising farmers, growers and organisations on business, production, land management solutions, crop and livestock management. As you’ll be visiting and training clients you’ll need to be a people person arranging contracts and payment details for products or services.

You’ll use your knowledge and understanding of cultural values, heritage, and Te Ao Māori to help farmers operate sustainably whilst ensuring the business is fit for the future.

You will require an understanding of the regulatory laws and compliance requirements needed to guide farmers and help them apply for consents and permission.

Using your overall knowledge of farming you will help address environmental issues such as water pollution, air quality, and soil contamination for a better environment.

You’ll work to solve issues of water quality, water supply, waste reduction and disposal, soil and air quality management, and noise. Evaluating and assessing the impact of engineering projects, design equipment and systems, and developing regulations and controls.

You’ll provide economic research and evidence for the agricultural sector, by examining the impact on rural industries and communities, and evaluating national and regional policy. Economists may advise governments and businesses, develop or assess economic policies and plans.

You’ll work hard to be part of your clients’ inner circle providing professional independent advice. Farm Advisors / Consultants cover many areas from how to improve the profitability, efficiency, and sustainability of farm systems to specialist topics such as fertilizer, dairy, or animal breeding.

You’ll love people and be passionate about getting the right people, with the right capabilities, in the right roles on the farm. Growth of individuals in the primary sector is important to you, as well as good people management and motivating workplaces.

Just like urban areas, our rural communities rely on the retail sector to support their livelihoods. There are a variety of options; from working at a farm store helping customers and making sales, to a role as a sales representative who visits farmers to give technical knowledge and provide up-to-date information to help farmers make decisions.

You’ll love numbers and using your accounting knowledge to provide systems and services relating to taxation and the financial dealings of rural businesses. You’ll prepare financial statements, record the amount of money spent and received, check budgets and file GST on behalf of your clients. You could be employed by an independent accounting business or a larger “big-four” accounting firm such as KPMG, PWC, Deloittes or Ernst & Young.

You’ll help farming clients achieve their business goals. Few other sectors face so many variables: weather, world markets, and exchange rate fluctuations. It’s hardly surprising that when it comes to banking, farmers’ requirements are very specific; from buying or selling land, livestock and other assets.