Beef and Lamb New Zealand directors Leon Black, from the southern South Island, and Mike Petersen, of the eastern North Island, have been re-elected to their positions unopposed.
Mr Black owns a 328ha all-sheep, mostly stud, farm near Riverton in Southland and is a director of the New Zealand Meat Board, Ovita and the Agriculture Industry Training Organisation, president of the Coopworth Sheep Society of New Zealand, and a councillor of the New Zealand Texel Society.
Mike Petersen is the incumbent chairman of Beef and Lamb, and owns a 400ha finishing farm in Hawkes Bay.
He is a director of Pakarae Whangara B5 farming partnership and several privately owned farming companies, and has involvement in farming businesses overseeing nearly 200,000 sheep and beef stock units in New Zealand.
Mr Petersen is chairman of the New Zealand Meat Board, a director of the Wool Research Organisation of New Zealand, a trustee of the New Zealand Wool Industry Charitable Trust, and represents Beef and Lamb New Zealand on the Primary Industries Council.