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Full-time working Director John Perrin Dip VFM |
Full-time working Director Trudy Laan B.Ag.Sc (Hons) Farm Management |
Full-time working Director Lee Matheson B,Appl.Sc (Hons) Rural Valuation & Management |
John Perrin
John has been in business as a Registered Farm Management Consultant for over 20 years. He is also a Registered Valuer, having gained experience in Land and Survey Department immediately after leaving Lincoln University. That experience has centred mainly around land development, farm supervision, and setting farms up for subdivision and settlement under the ballot system operating at that time. In the 20 years since leaving Lands and Survey he has tended to specialise in large-scale farm supervision, management and consultancy for Maori authorities and other absentee owners. From the mid 1990’s he has been predominantly involved in the design and direct management of dairy conversion projects for these absentee owners. He has retained oversight of these projects ensuring that on-farm Managers and Sharemilkers achieve the projected returns.
John is also a Director of Dairy Projects International, a company involved in overseas dairy project development and he operates his own bull/beef farm.
Trudy Laan
Trudy graduated from Massey with an honours degree in Agricultural Science. Since then she has been involved in: practical farming on her own account; worked as a tutor and senior tutor in agriculture, teaching at all levels including Farm Business Management, Bankers short courses, Sharemilking courses, farm records and book-keeping, feed budgeting, personnel management. She has also been a national examiner for NZQA farm business. Joining Perrin Ag in May 2002, Trudy works as a farm consultant in all areas of farming, specialising in Forestry to Farm conversions, dairying and staff recruitment.
Trudy is now a Director and Shareholder of Perrin Ag Consultants Ltd.
Lee Matheson
Originating from the southern North Island, Lee graduated in 2000 from Massey University with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Rural Valuation and Management. After completing an Honours year in pastoral science, Lee moved to Wellington where he worked firstly in NBNZ Treasury as the bank’s short-end interest rate trader and then at ANZ Investment Bank as the Senior Trader on the Forward Foreign Exchange Desk.
Having left Wellington in August 2006, Lee has been with Perrin Ag for two years, becoming a Director and shareholder in the business in April 2008. In addition to providing one-on-one agribusiness consultancy to both dairy and drystock farmers, Lee specializes in financial analysis, whole farm systems modeling and nutrient management.
Lee has a 4.5 acre smallholding on the edge of the Waikite Valley.