The national council of Livestock Improvement shareholders faces new challenges now the organisation no longer operates under the Dairy Board, says its incoming chairwoman Barbara Kuriger.
"The shareholders are the real owners and part of the emphasis will be on giving them a sense of ownership," said Kuriger, who takes
up her role in October.
She said she thrived on challenges in the dairy industry, and believed chairing Livestock Improvement was a natural progression from an association that began in 1988 when she worked for it as a sales representative.
In 1993, Kuriger became a member of the company's Taranaki regional board, moving on to the council five years ago when it was formed from a merger of the regional boards.
Kuriger and her husband, Louis, farm at Oaonui in Taranaki and have won the Royal Agricultural Society's A. C. Cameron Rural Excellence Award (1999), the Kiwi Dairies Farmer of the Year (1997), the National Fieldays Farmer of the Year (1995), Taranaki Sharemilker of the Year (1987) and regional Young Farmer of the Year (1986).
