Southland’s Lana Marshall is a finalist in the transtasman Zanda McDonald agribusiness award. That is how Southland woman Lana Marshall describes her progression through the transtasman Zanda McDonald agribusiness award to finalist. Mrs Marshall, 31, is a client director at NZAB in Invercargill and balances her professional advisory role with hands-on farming as a 50:50 sharemilker with her husband, Elliott. Fearing she was not good enough to apply for the award, Mrs Marshall said she was pushed into it and decided she would give it a crack. "One minute is not long enough for me to tell them that I’m a bit of a talker," she laughed.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 20, 2026 15:36 UTC