Jaded Leadership: Time to Regroup
About this special report
A busy six-year government legislative agenda has divided the primary sector and exhausted its leaders.
Leaders spoken to say trying to tread the fine line between farmer and grower expectation and the demands of government, has caused division from angry and frustrated farmers but also taken an enormous toll among sector leaders. Neal Wallace reports.
Leadership fatigue taking its toll on sector
The primary sector’s leaders are feeling the pressure as farmers’ fear and frustration deepen divisions in the industry.
Pushing leaders beyond reason and remit
Farmers are asking far too much of their industry good bodies, says one young agri CEO.
In the firing line when HWEN kicked off
Andrew Morrison was an early victim of the increasing polarisation of farming views.
Lessons from the frontlines of ag leadership
Leading fractious farmers is tough at the best of times, and these are not those.
Water regs took Groundswell co-founder to boiling point
Groundswell touched a nerve, says co-founder Bryce McKenzie.
Politics in the primary sector: who pays?
A Nuffield scholar questions the role of levy-funded bodies in the political space.
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