Helwi Tacoma
Sam Williams
Chris Pyke
Bruce Thomas
Darren Florence
North Island - Waikato
 | Helwi Tacoma | |
| Job Title Qualification Office Location | Dairy Consultant / Director DVM (Netherlands) South Island, New Zealand helwi.tacoma "at" intelact.co.nz | |
Helwi has been a practicing vet since 1985. He spent six years in Holland specialising in dairy herd health programmes. Now with Intelact, the “whole herd” approach to production and profitability is his main line of interest. | ||
 | Mark Hosking | |
| Job Title Qualification Office Location | Dairy Consultant BVSc, MACVSc South Island, New Zealand mark.hosking "at" intelact.co.nz | |
| Mark is a dairy cattle veterinarian with Franklin Veterinary Services. He has special interests in herd health planning and nutrition with experience in both New Zealand and UK dairy farming systems. He has recently gained a post-graduate qualification in dairy cattle medicine and production. | ||
 | David Hawkins | |
| Job Title Qualification Office Location | Dairy Consultant BVSc, MACVSc Franklin Veterinary Services, Waiuku david.hawkins "at" intelact.co.nz | |
| David is a director of Franklin Veterinary Services, managing the Waiuku branch of the practice. His background is as a dairy cattle veterinarian with special interests in the areas of production management, mastitis and milk quality and whole herd approaches to farm systems. He has several years experience in consulting roles in the dairy and pig industries and has undertaken Intelact training to enhance services to clients. David sees that bottom line profitability has to be the prime driver of efforts to sustainably increase farm productivity. | ||
 | Shane Croft | |
| Job Title Qualification Office Location | Dairy Consultant B.Com North Island, New Zealand shane.croft "at" intelact.co.nz | |
| Shane has been involved as a consultant in the dairy industry for 13 years. He initially joined Livestock Improvement Advisory and spent 9 years as a consulting officer (also known as Dexcel and currently as DairyNZ). For the last 4 years he has been self employed asan independent consultant andjoined Intelact in 2006. He graduated from Lincoln University in 1995 with aBachelor of Commerce (Agriculture) majoring in Farm Management. Shane uses the key Intelact analysis tools including Red Sky Farm analysis and UDDER to develop and help maintain plans to maximise his clients profitability and achieve their goals. He is motivated to helping farmers achieve their family and business goals by developing highly profitable and sustainable dairy businesses. | ||
 | Warren Morritt | |
| Job Title Qualification Office Location | Dairy Consultant, Managing Director B Agr North Island, New Zealand warren.morritt "at" intelact.co.nz | |
| Warren spent six years in Saudi Arabia as Farm Manager of a vertically integrated (zero grazing) dairy farm comprising4,000 head of livestock. On returning to New Zealand in 1994 he started dairy consultancy with Intelact, taking up the position of Managing Director in 1996. Since this time Intelact has become New Zealand’s largest dairy consultancy company, now operating in Australia and South Africa. Intelact has developed a feed supply company (SourceNZ Ltd) a financial planning / benchmarking company (Headland NZ Ltd) and moved into international export and farm developments (Source World Ltd). | ||
 | Ross Beal | |
| Job Title Qualification Office Location | Dairy Consultant / Director B VSc. North Island, New Zealand ross.beal "at" intelact.co.nz | |
| Ross has over 30 years dairy veterinary experience with a particular interest in preventative veterinary medicine and computerised herd health programmes. This includes fertility, mastitis and nutritional work with extensive experience in winter milk production systems. Ross is a principal in Franklin Veterinary Services. | ||
 | Chris Pyke | |
| Job Title Qualification Office Location | Dairy Consultant / Director B VSc. North Island, New Zealand chris.pyke "at" intelact.co.nz | |
| Chris has practiced as a dairy cow veterinarian with Cambridge Veterinary Services (New Zealand) since 1976 and has a particular interest in dairy production systems and nutrition. He is recognised as a leader in the area of large scale calf rearing and live export of young stock due to his knowledge and experience in this field and has consulted under contract to a number of the most prominent livestock export companies both in NZ and Australia. | ||
 | Bruce Thomas | |
| Job Title Qualification Office Location | Dairy Consultant / Director B Agr Sc, C, P, Ag. North Island, New Zealand bruce.thomas "at" intelact.co.nz | |
| After gaining his degree Bruce initially worked as a MAF consultant prior to moving through the ranks of share-milking to farm ownership. Since 1995 Bruce has overseen the management of his dairy farm as well as consulting full time with Intelact. | ||
 | Andy Collier | |
| Job Title Qualification Office Location | Dairy Consultant / Director B. V. Sc. North Island, New Zealand andy.collier "at" intelact.co.nz | |
| Andy is a veterinarian with over 20 years experience in large animal health gained largely in the greater Waikato. He has a post graduate qualification in dairy cow medicine and a longstanding interest in dairy cow nutrition, reproduction and farm systems. | ||
 | Bill Rys | |
| Job Title Qualification Office Location | Dairy Consultant / Director B.Agr (Massey), M.Tropical Agr (Wye College-UK) North Island, New Zealand bill.rys "at" intelact.co.nz | |
| From a farming background in New Zealand, Bill studied for his Bachelor of Agr. at Massey University. His first Management position was on a 1500 cow feedlot operation in Saudi Arabia where he spent 3 years. He then progressed to a 2000 cow herd in Northern Territory followed by 50:50% Share-milking on his parent’s farm. In 1993 a passion for tropical agriculture took Bill to Wye College, University of London to obtain his Masters. The Masters was chosen for its emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving in farming systems, and the management of development projects. Bill and his family spent 5 years in Jamaica on a 1600 cow dairy unit, also growing coffee and processing milk and juices. On his return to New Zealand he took up a position as a consultant with Intelact to disseminate leading edge technology to Dairy farmers in the Northern North Island of New Zealand. | ||
 | Darren Florence | |
| Job Title Qualification Office Location | Dairy Consultant / Director BVSc North Island, New Zealand darren.florence "at" intelact.co.nz | |
| Darren is a Director of Lakeland Vets Ltd, a Central Plateau dairy based veterinary practice. He graduated as a veterinarian in 1995 and has experienced many different farming systems throughout New Zealand and the United Kingdom. His major focus is on improving farm productivity and profitability and he has a wealth of experience in administering herd health programmes including nutrition, reproduction and mastitis management. | ||
 | Dan Sullivan | |
| Job Title Qualification Office Location | Dairy Consultant North Island, New Zealand daniel.sullivan "at" intelact.co.nz | |
 | Soren Moller | |
| Job Title Qualification Office Location | Dairy Consultant / Director B VSc, PhD North Island, New Zealand soren.moller "at" intelact.co.nz | |
| Soren has been a practicing dairy cow veterinarian since 1974 and a farm management and dairy consultant since 1993. He is well known for his research work and completed a PhD from Massey University based on the dairy cow and pasture interface. Soren is recognised nationally as having been at the forefront of developments in the area of supplemented, higher performing dairy systems. | ||
 | Sam Williams | |
| Job Title Qualification Office Location | Dairy Consultant B.Agr.Sc (Hons) North Island, New Zealand sam.williams "at" intelact.co.nz | |
| Sam is from a farming background with experience in dairying, sheep, beef, deer and technosystem bulls. Keen to stay in the agriculture industry he completed his degree at Lincoln University graduating in 2007 after undertaking an honours programme in diet selection. This has reinforced his interest in animal nutrition and farm management. | ||
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