Golden Bay dairy farmer Wayne Langford has been elected vice president of Federated Farmers.
Langford, who has served as Feds dairy industry chair for the last two years, is also known as the "YOLO Farmer" through his work promoting rural mental health and his role as co-founder of food charity Meat the Need.
Langford will be joined by three new board members, new dairy chair Richard McIntyre and two "at large" members Sandra Faulkner and Mark Hooper.
President Andrew Hoggard was re-elected unopposed.
The announcements were made on Friday last week at the association's AGM in Auckland and board vacancies were created when Chris Lewis, Chris Allen and vice president Karen Williams stepped down.