IF the success of your innovative farming operation can be measured by the arrival of foreign businessmen in a helicopter to have a look around, then Mark Wootton of Jigsaw Farms can tick that achievement off his list.

Along with wife Eve Kantor, their 3400-hectare mixed-grazing enterprise north of Hamilton has been gaining global interest in a number of ways, enough for Mr Wootton to be invited to speak via video to the British Society of Animal Science annual conference next week.