Dairy Consulting Officer

Jono, wife Kelly and their 2 children are 50/50 share milking 500 cows at Tussock Creek. They also have business interests in another 700 cows 50/50 position. Coming from a town background in Wellington Jono has been dairy farming now with more than 20 years’ experience. The Bavin’s are Southland/Otago’s 2015 Share farmer of the year where they also took home 5 merits and the National Environment merit award. Jono brings a range of skills to the table, he has a sound financial understanding of budgets and accounts, strategic planning…

Ivan is the principal of Agribusiness Consultants Ltd, Ivan heads a team of five specialist and general farm consultants that cover all aspects of farm management from day-to-day management fine-tuning to property assessments, investment analysis and property supervision. Ivan specialises in dairy management, investment analysis, farm system analysis and governance. He has also consulted in Ireland and the UK. Ivan and his wife, Vivienne, are shareholders in three dairy properties milking 2030 cows producing 960,000kgMS. He is also a director or trustee of many farming businesses.   Contact details Phone:…