Nigel Rowe-Lucas – Kraft-Heinz<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Senior Agronomist at Kraft-Heinz for the last 17 years based in Christchurch. In this role responsible for procuring and delivering the appropriate raw material of a range of vegetable crops for procressing into frozen and dried products for Wattie\u2019s and Heinz brands locally and internationally, as well for a wide range of external international customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also leads an internal research and development programme focussed on sustainably maintaining and\/or improving crop performance and raw material quality for the benefit of Kraft-Heinz and grower suppliers. This includes working closely with seed and agrichemical companies, Plant and Food Research and Process Vegetables New Zealand, as well as the wider industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prior to current role worked for Dow AgroSciences (now Corteva) conducting early stage agrichemical research and development, and partiularly fungicide development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Biography Nigel Rowe-Lucas – Kraft-Heinz Senior Agronomist at Kraft-Heinz for the last 17 years based in Christchurch. In this role responsible for procuring and delivering the appropriate raw material of a range of vegetable crops for procressing into frozen and dried products for Wattie\u2019s and Heinz brands locally and internationally, as well for a wide…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vegetable-speakers"],"yoast_head":"\n