Agricultural & rural sponsorships

New Zealand Farm Environment Trust

The New Zealand Farm Environment Trust seeks to promote leadership in environmental excellence and encourage the uptake of management practices which both protect and enhance the environment and add value to farming businesses and communities through an annual awards programme ‘The Ballance Farm Environment Awards’.

Rabobank places a growing importance on environmental sustainability and our staff are involved in many of the regional committees and judging teams for the Ballance Farm Environment Awards.

Red Meat Profit Partnership

The Red Meat Profit Partnership (RMPP) is a unique collaboration between the Red Meat Sector and Government through the Primary Growth Partnership programme. The programme draws together nine industry partners that are investing alongside the Ministry for Primary Industries. The objective of RMPP is to drive sustainable productivity improvements in the sheep and beef sector to deliver higher on farm profitability. Rabobank’s involvement in the RMPP is a seven year partnership in which we work alongside industry partners to provide practical tools to farmers to implement on farm.

Rural Leaders

Rural Leaders is focused on developing the leadership capability that enables rural communities to flourish, and keeps New Zealand at the forefront of global agribusiness.  Rural Leaders role is to nurture and grow New Zealand’s two foremost rural leadership programmes – the Nuffield Farming Scholarship and the Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme  - while strengthening connections between the network of alumni members.  Investing in the future leaders of the rural industry is an important focus for Rabobank and we’re proud to support these two programmes which promote excellence, knowledge and innovation in agribusiness.