The corporatisation of agriculture creates a different set of challenges compared with traditional owner-operator businesses. Corporate agribusinesses often encounter the complexities of needing to coordinate multiple operations, manage increased staffing levels, integrate monitoring and reporting capability and implement timely decisions within a larger management chain. There has been an increased investment by non-farming related Companies investing in New Zealand Agriculture, and they are requiring to know that their investment is being managed and they are being kept informed.

Gary has considerable experience with Overseas Invest Office and is involved with a number of farming operations for absentee owners.