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×John's areas of expertise include strategic planning, marketing, supply chain management and change management. He works with some of the UK's leading farmers as well as major food and dairy processors and retailers.
×Ainsley has been a Consultant since 1995, working with dairy, livestock and food businesses. He specialises in reviews, business planning and the preparation of budgets and cashflows.
Ainsley manages a program for dairy farmers supplying a major retailer, supporting them to excel in animal health, welfare and business efficiency and is registered by Farming Connect in Wales, with an excellent track record in grant applications.
×Neil has over 30 years of consultancy experience, specialising in the dairy sector across Wales and the Midlands. Neil's areas of expertise include business management, strategic planning, dairy nutrition and technical consultancy. Neil provides advice to farmers, milk processors and the agricultural supply trade. Neil also manages the delivery of a number of larger scale projects within Kite.
×Nicky is a vet by training and worked in predominantly dairy practice in and around Cheshire and North Shropshire. She has also worked within the wider industry specialising in knowledge transfer with some time in the world of pharmaceuticals. Nicky is part of the Corporate Team, working with retailers and processors, particularly in the delivery of knowledge transfer events as she does enjoy a good farm walk! Outside of work her time is usually taken up juggling her families sporting and social activities but does sometimes find time for her garden.
×Mike has worked in the dairy industry for the majority of his career and currently provides high level strategic planning and technical advice to agribusinesses across the South and South West of England.
Mike's areas of expertise include nutrition, herd management and strategic planning issues relating to large scale dairy systems.
×Tanya has worked in East Anglia as a dairy business consultant for almost 20 years. Tanya currently works with a range of agribusiness mainly in East Anglia, but also in Jersey. She manages the East Midlands sub-team and chairs the Nutrition Network.
Her areas of expertise are in nutritional and technical consultancy she also undertakes farm business and financial management for a number of her clients.
×Chloe joined Kite in 2016 following on from employment in both robotic and conventional dairy businesses.
Chloe works with farmers in Eastern counties, providing business and technical support. Her particular interests lie in budgeting, heifer rearing, and farm team management. She works closely with multiple National discussion groups and retailer aligned contracts.
×Tim has more than 30 years experience as a specialist farm animal nutritionist and works across the Midlands, North of England and Wales as well collaborating on nutrition research in the UK, Europe and the USA.
Tim's areas of expertise include specialist dairy nutrition, solving health, fertility and production problems, manipulating milk quality, modelling carbon footprint of livestock, legal work, buying group work and the evaluation of feeds.
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Helen, who spent several years as an agronomist before becoming a sustainability consultant, has a particular interest in soils and the part they play in efficient milk production. Helen is BASIS & FACTS qualified and a member of the BASIS Environmental Advisers Register and the NFU Net Zero Steering Group. She is heavily involved with the home dairy and arable farms in Cumbria and joins Kite as a member of the Sustainability Team, based in the north of England, working across the UK.
×Marcus graduated from Harper Adams in 2015 with a BSc (Hons) in Agriculture with Animal Science after growing up on a mixed arable and dairy farm. He then pursued a career in farm management and brings his extensive practical experience combined with technical knowledge to help farms improve business performance across the South West. Marcus has a particular interest in nutrition for high yielding systems, herd development through targeted use of genetics as well as staff recruitment and management.
×Helen is an experienced agricultural consultant and has worked in Shropshire, Cheshire and North Wales for over 30 years.
Helen’s expertise includes management consultancy, business and strategic planning, joint ventures and dairy herd management. She works with a wide range of dairy and livestock farms.
×Joss is a ruminant nutritionist working across the North of England and SW Scotland.
He works predominantly with large scale dairy businesses along with an ever increasing number of robotic herds. Joss likes to focus on all technical areas within a business to ensure the most economical Kg’s of fat and protein possible.
×Chris began his consultancy career in West Wales before moving to the Midlands. He now works over a wide radius across the country with many different dairy and mixed businesses.
Chris' areas of expertise include; business management, business strategy and planning, nutrition, herd health and herd management. His wide-ranging client base includes dairy farming businesses, specialist benchmarking groups, processors and retailers. Promoting sustainability, resilience and future proofing businesses.
×Maimie has spent several years working in Ruminant Nutrition before joining Kite in 2022 as a Technical Consultant. She is based in the South West of England working with a range of dairy businesses and systems along with an ever increasing number of robotic herds. Maimie holds an honours degree in Agriculture with Animal Science and also a Masters degree in Agriculture Professional Practice. Maimie likes to focus on technical efficiencies and improving kgs of fat and protein produced on farm. Her areas of expertise are in nutritional and technical consultancy including genetics.
×Eliot graduated from Harper Adams in 2017 with a BSc Honours degree in Agriculture, before working for a farm management company, managing several large-scale dairy businesses and estates across Scotland and Southwest England. Eliot is based in Cumbria, working alongside other members of the North team. His interests include business management and planning, ruminant nutrition and technical consultancy.
×Becky has spent several years working in ruminant nutrition before joining Kite in 2024 as a Technical Consultant. She is based in Gloucestershire working in the South of England on a range of dairy businesses focussing on improving efficiencies and overall output. Becky has a honours degree in Animal Science and a Masters degree in Ruminant Nutrition. Becky’s main interests are robots, feed efficiency and improving farm technical performance.
×Kaia joined Kite in 2019 after graduating from The University of Nottingham with a degree in Agricultural Sciences. She spent a year working as an Assistant Manager on a robotic unit before returning to Kite in 2022. Kaia is based in Cheltenham and is a member of the South West team with a particular interest in business management and gaining value from farm data.
×Deleted: Rose graduated from Bristol Veterinary School in 2004 and worked as a farm animal Vet in Derbyshire for 16 years working predominantly with Dairy farmers. Rose holds a Diploma in Bovine Reproduction and a Certificate in Veterinary Business Management. Her main areas of interest are fertility, data analysis and genetics.
×David has recently left his position as Senior Dairy Consultant with SRUC to join Kite and has extensive experience in providing technical and business consultancy to dairy businesses across Scotland. David also works closely with milk processors, particularly cheese makers, to improve cheese yields and factory efficiencies. David's motto is "from parlour to palate".
×Edward has more than 20 years experience in dairy consultancy and works with a wide range of dairy businesses across the south of England and Wales.
Edward's areas of expertise include dairy herd management, business management, cost of production analysis and strategic planning. He works across the industry with dairy farmers, processors and retailers as clients.
×Paul has worked as a consultant since 1997 and predominantly works across the Midlands and South West of England delivering technical and business management consultancy.
Paul’s areas of expertise include ruminant nutrition, forage management and breeding focusing on efficiency and profitability. His clients include a wide range of dairy farms and farmer groups as well as delivering specialist projects.
×Andrew has worked as a dairy farm consultant since 1992 in Shropshire and Cheshire.
His area of expertise is dairy business and technical consultancy; helping a wide range of dairy farms develop efficient, profitable businesses
×Kate qualified from the University of Cambridge in 2014 and worked as a farm animal vet in Kent and Lancashire. Kate joined Kite in 2019 and is based in Cheshire.
She works as a technical specialist focused on dairy and youngstock nutrition, whole herd health management and sustainability. She utilises her technical and veterinary skillset to work with farm clients to maximise on farm efficiency for production, animal health and sustainability, as well as with various corporate clients and discussion groups. She project manages one of the key corporate projects in the business, which runs a variety of meetings formats across the England, Wales and Scotland. She also have a keen interest in the responsible use of antibiotics on dairy farms, project managing various corporate clients and their antibiotic monitoring and reduction programmes.
×Ewan is a founding partner of Kite Consulting. He has more than 30 year’s consultancy experience and is recognised within the industry through work with the RABDF, British Grassland Institutes and OMSCO.
His specific areas of expertise are farm business management, strategic planning and technical consultancy.
Ewan was co-author of the Kite’s ground-breaking Carbon Footprint tool widely used across the industry from McDonalds to Arla as part of their corporate sustainability activities.
×Mark began working as a consultant in 1996 and has wide knowledge of the agricultural industry. Mark has been instrumental in developing Advance Sourcing, which he manages.
Mark's specialist skills lie in commodity sourcing; group buying; project management; database development and logistics whilst he also works with large dairy and agribusinesses across the UK.
×Becki was awarded a first-class BSc (Hons) in Applied Animal Science in 2008. During her early career she worked in technical advisory, project management and relationship manager roles in the agricultural supply trade, for AHDB Dairy and within the beef supply chain for Dovecote Park; a processor fully integrated with Waitrose. Having joined the Kite business in 2019, Becki is now Account Manager and relationship manager for several key corporate accounts and industry stakeholders. She plays a key role in corporate business development and project management both in the UK and internationally and is also responsible for events, marketing and PR across the Kite business, including being the producer of our weekly Kite podcast.
×Emily graduated from Nottingham University in 2018 with a First Class BSc (Hons) degree in Agriculture and Livestock. She is based in the East Midlands and joined Kite in November 2023 as a Dairy Consultant. She has experience in different dairy systems and has previously worked for a large multi-site business across the country, managing compliance as well as working alongside the leadership team to deliver on business management. Emily is a FACTS qualified advisor with an interest in environmental consultancy as well as the business and technical aspects of dairy production.
×Amy graduated from Harper Adams University in 2022 with a First Class BSc (Hons) degree in Agriculture with Animal Science. Amy has worked within the ruminant nutrition industry and has a broad background in livestock production through employment on multiple dairy units throughout the UK and New Zealand alongside involvement in family sheep and suckler enterprises.
Amy is based in Yorkshire and works as a Consultant across the North. Her main interests lie in ruminant nutrition and the technical aspects of dairy production.
×Ben became a consultant in 1996, covering East Anglia, the South East and Lincolnshire. He is responsible for delivering business and technical advice to many of the region's leading mixed farms.
Areas of expertise include the management of dairy herds on a variety of production systems with a focus on profitability, nutrition, herd health and fertility, business strategy, financial management. Ben currently works with farmers, agribusinesses, processors and retailers.
×Steve joined the corporate team at Kite in January 2025 and is based in the Peak District. He graduated in 2003 with a BSc.(Hons) degree in Biology from Lancaster University. His career has included roles as a Molecular Biologist at University of Warwick, a Business Development Manager at NMR and, most recently, a Knowledge Exchange Manager at AHDB. He has managed a number of farmer discussion groups and has organised and chaired many industry events. He will be involved with management of projects related to processor and aligned contract farmer group delivery and account management.
×Tillie is based in the Staffordshire Moorlands; she joined Kite as a Dairy Consultant in November 2023. Tillie has extensive knowledge of livestock production systems in particular grass-based block calving dairy systems, having gained further experience in New Zealand. She graduated from Harper Adams University in 2011, with a degree in Rural Enterprise and Land Management. During her career she has worked for a large multi-site dairy farming business based in Cheshire, where she played an integral role within the senior leadership team to successfully expand and develop the business further.
In her previous role as a farm consultant, Tillie managed several dairy discussion groups as well as gaining a vast amount of experience in farm business management and grant applications. Tillie specialises in all aspects of farm business management including farm budgeting and contract farming agreements. Tillie has firsthand experience of managing people and has a particular interest in team dynamics, effective communication, and people development.
