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BakerAg are thrilled and proud to advise that at a recent New Zealand Institute of Primary Industry Management (NZIPIM) meeting Chris Garland was recognised as a Life member of the Institute - full citation follows

Chris Garland graduated from Massey University in the late 70’s and joined the MAF Advisory Services as a farm advisor.

Farmers in their tractors and utes are staging protests in 55 cities all over New Zealand today, all uniting to show disapproval of numerous government policies that interfere with the way farmers operate and increase costs.

Click on the link below to listen to BakerAg consultant Chris Garland discuss the protest with Magic Talk

BakerAg is a well-established rural consultancy and valuation company with offices in Masterton and Feilding. We service clients mainly throughout the Southern North Island as well as nationwide, in sheep and beef consultancy, dairy consultancy, rural and commercial valuation (including property rights and leasing) and have a growing environmental compliancy service offering.

The future looks extremely bright for Sam Vivian-Greer of Masterton, who received the coveted 2021 New Zealand Zanda McDonald Award this morning, at a dawn ceremony at Whangara Farms, north of Gisborne.

Vivian-Greer, 31, is a Farm Consultant at BakerAg in the Wairarapa, working alongside farmers who are keen to improve and better their farming operations, and has developed mentoring groups to further develop farm managers and agricultural professionals.

Ed Harrison, BakerAg, facilitator of the Beef + Lamb New Zealand Wairarapa Farming for Profit programme, outlining the purpose of this video series and Wairarapa farmer Sully Alsop setting the scene on his Omahu property.

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25 March 2020

To Our Clients,

Today we enter a “New World” in New Zealand and the coming month will force us to consider new ways to work and interact with others. That will bring new challenges on top of an already difficult time with the drought.

As part of the measures being taken to restrict the movement of people in the next 4 weeks as New Zealand moves to Level 4 in the battle against the spread of COVID-19, the Government and MPI have taken the following steps

24 March 2020

Essential information for ALL farmers around COVID-19

You must register as an essential business

https://www.mpi.govt.nz/covid-19-essential-primary-sector-service-registration/

COVID-19: Tuesday 24 March: Update on Agricultural Industry Essential Services  

Joint update from Beef + Lamb New Zealand and the Meat Industry Association  

March 23 2020

To all members,

As you will all be aware the Prime Minister announced today that New Zealand has moved to a COVID-19 Alert Level 3 and will move to Level 4 on Wednesday at midnight.

This moves the entire country into ‘lockdown’. As you already know, this is designed to slow the transmission of the virus.

Due to the level status the nation is on following COVID19 (Coronavirus), the BakerAg office's are currently unattended.

Please contact the following people for enquiries:

Sheep and Beef - Chris Garland – 027 437 9834

Dairy - Chris Lewis – 027 446 0294

Valuation - Fergus Rutherford – 027 483 6293

General Enquiries – Megan Futter – 027 894 3729

A field day will be held at Stuart and Jane McKenzies, Te Rangi Station, Whangaehu Valley Road, Masterton on Friday 27th March, starting at 9.30.

Lunch will be a fundraiser so please bring along $10 cash.

Quad bikes or side by sides required and helmets are compulsory.