\u201cEvery farming customer participating in our First Farm programme will be matched with an experienced farmer mentor who has been through the highs and lows of herd or farm ownership and knows what it takes to make a farming business succeed,\u201d Handley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery mentor-mentee relationship will be slightly different. But the one-on-one support from a proven operator in key areas such as business planning, budgeting, cashflow, governance, and people decisions will make a real difference from day one. Having someone in their corner with that hard-won experience, generously shared, will really make a difference for our industry participants.\u201d<\/p>\n
Supporting succession and sustainable growth<\/p>\n
BNZ says First Farm aims to help tackle one of the sector\u2019s biggest challenges \u2013 farm succession.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndustry surveys show only one third of New Zealand farmers have a formal succession plan in place,\u201d Handley said. \u201cWe know there are opportunities to make the next step into ownership more straightforward for the next generation while ensuring valuable farming knowledge isn\u2019t lost.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the programme\u2019s dual approach \u2013 accessible bank funding and structured mentorship \u2013 helps bridge the gap between generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEvery farming customer participating in our First Farm programme will be matched with an experienced farmer mentor who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28500,12967,70255,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-94636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-bnz","9":"tag-farmers","10":"tag-first-farm","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}