Beth Parry
Beth Graduated from Nottingham University in 2014 with a First class BSc (Hons) degree in Animal science with an Accreditation in Nutrition. She is based in North West Wales on the family dairy farm and joined Kite in 2026 as a Technical Consultant. She has technical nutrition experience working with a range of dairy systems, and has worked in feed and agricultural supply businesses to date, ranging from research and development, knowledge exchange and on-farm nutrition technical services. Beth’s main interests are maximising feed efficiency, forage utilisation, manipulating milk quality and fertility and genetics.
beth.parry@kiteconsulting.com / 07802 451788
Emily Stafford
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 has experience in different dairy systems, previously working 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.
emily.stafford@kiteconsulting.com / 07842 432806
Marcus Doig
Marcus has worked for Kite for 4 years as a dairy technical consultant based in Somerset, working across the Southwest of England and South Wales. He graduated from Harper Adams University in 2015 with a BSc in Agriculture with Animal Science. Post university Marcus worked as a dairy farm manager on units ranging from 200-1200 cows for the 6 years, managing all areas entailed in running a dairy business from milking to monitoring cashflows. He bring hands on experience, helping dairy clients improving technical performance on farm, focusing on the following areas: Dairy nutrition (dry cow/youngstock and beef), Forage planning, Soil and nutrient management, Herd health & fertility analysis, Dairy costings & benchmarking, Genetics & breeding, Milk forecasting, People & team management.
marcus.doig@kiteconsulting.com / 07513 727191
Jo Speed
Jo Speed is an experienced agricultural consultant, coach and facilitator with over 30 years working across the UK dairy farming sector. Her career spans practical farm work, national knowledge transfer programmes and consultancy with some of the UK’s leading farm business advisory practices — giving her both the technical grounding and the people skills that effective farm advisory work demands. Jo is particularly well placed to support the Farming Connect Business Planning workstream, with a specialist focus on inheritance, succession planning and farm business transfer. Jo focuses on the following areas; Inheritance and succession planning, contract farming, share farming agreements and joint venture initiatives – Reports specific for these requirements can be included; they would normally include many of the elements above, accounts analysis, gross margin, and budget and profit predictions. The adviser would produce the report either jointly or with suitable expert advice from others, e.g. accountant, financial adviser, solicitor. This category can be undertaken on a stand-alone basis or incorporated into a Business Plan
jo.speed@kiteconsulting.com / 07900 502860
Mark Tripney
Marks whole career has been within the agricultural industry. After agricultural college at Seale Hayne in Devon he forged a career in Farm Management, in the dairy and arable sectors. These opportunities and his growing interest in soil analysis and its influence on productivity led him to explore this further. A Nuffield Scholarship in 2005 enabled travel to study this abroad. His work since has evolved to advise and present on a wider range of nutrients and their relevance to soil, crop and animal health. Marks specialism is soil and nutrients. He has delivered since 2017 nutrient reports, clinics & farm workshops through Kite for farming connect. He has a client base which have stayed with him for 20 + years working on Soils, Manures, Nutrients and NVZ compliance.
mark.tripney@isoils.co.uk / 07798 904083
Richard Davies
Richard has had twenty years farm managing and lecturing in farm management. He managed a 800 acre mixed livestock including pigs and poultry. Then 20 years managing a team of staff for AHDB in Wales delivering discussion groups and farm improvement schemes. Richard has been self employed for the last 6 years working mainly with dairy and beef and sheep farmers in North Wales. The majority of his work is farm business planning, budgeting and monitoring budgets and cash flows on a regular basis. He is also experienced in collecting the relevant data for the Water Framework Directive (NVZ) for farmers and SFS applications.
richllandyrnog@gmail.com / 07966 237841
