Harvest Farm Advisory Ltd was formed in May 2009 by its current managing director, Dave Blackwell. We are a Northland based New Zealand company wholly incorporated in New Zealand. Dave was previously a director and 49% equity partner in agriconsult (Pvt) Ltd operating out of Tropical Southern Africa, for over 15 years servicing that region. His previous appointment prior to emigrating to New Zealand was Marketing new generation pesticides for a large Swiss manufacturer.

Subsequent to moving to New Zealand he has tutored Horticulture and Agriculture courses to off farm trainees, been involved in Safe Pesticide use tutoring and fulfilled the role of Consulting Officer lower Northland for Dairy NZ for two years. Dave has been working as a Farm Consultant in Northland for three years with a total of four years of Northland experience.

The company offers technical and management mentoring, primarily but not exclusively to dairy farmers in Australasia.

Mission Statement

“To add value to clients decisions using sound technical and ethical principles and then to empower them to continue.”

Core Values

• We believe that dairy viability in New Zealand depends the proficient production of low cost home grown, quality feed, principally grass.
• We believe that failing to plan your business is planning to fail.
• We believe that risk assessment and management, is a priority when considering any economic evaluations. Cheap is not always best.
• We believe in the importance of our human resource and advocate training and ethical HR management practices.
• We believe that social objectives are as important as financial objectives and that they go hand in hand.
• We believe in empowering our clients to be able to do it themselves - "give a man a fish and feed him for a day, teach him to fish and feed him for life."