Rodney is joint owner and Managing Director of Dunfield Farming Limited, a 400ha finishing property at Hororata, Canterbury. He was responsible for the development and transformation of the property from dryland to fully irrigated several years ago. Dunfield is predominantly a beef finishing property. Rodney’s farm business has recently become one of the earliest to gain a gold standard in the NZFAP Plus accreditation programme.

Rodney graduated from Lincoln University with a Diploma in Farm Management. He completed the To the Core and To the Core Extension governance development programmes, and was also member of Silver Fern Farms’ extended development group (EDG).