Our Approach

Different businesses need our help for different reasons and our starting point, which then becomes our reference point for all the advice we provide, is to understand your big picture. Who you are, where your business is now, where you’d like it to be and the challenges you have in getting there.

Taking this holistic perspective ensures that all the subsequent work we do and advice we provide aligns to who you are and what you want to achieve. 

We’ve developed a suite of rigorous analytical tools that provide the insights you need to help with your decision-making. We analyse your financial and other farming data and lay out all the key metrics required to monitor and make sense of your operations.

With those metrics in place, we benchmark your performance against other high performing rural businesses we've dealt with paying close attention to points of parity and where some of your deficiencies might be. 

With a clear picture in place, we then look objectively at the key challenges and issues we’ve identified and work through those challenges with you.

We consider how you can reduce costs, become leaner, improve profitability and free up capital. We think through how to better structure the business to position it for growth, helping you navigate through the complex issues that can arise. We can also provide you with due diligence on acquisitions you may be considering. 

Different businesses have different management expertise and we can evaluate gaps and provide a pathway to onboarding complementary skills.

Outside our own expertise we have an extended network of professionals we know and trust who you can leverage when needed.

Our financial services licence allows us to develop a bespoke strategy for managing risks relating to the sale of your grain and help you implement it.  

Rural businesses are getting bigger and in so doing becoming more complex. Global markets can be volatile and there are risks to consider and rewards to be gained and this adds another layer of complexity.

Our clients are ambitious, striving to improve and want to be challenged and our outside perspective, objectivity, rigor and experience helps them make good decisions and important ones too.

We develop good relationships with our clients and they have confidence in us to be across those things that they either don’t have time to do or the expertise to do well and to open their eyes to other possibilities and different ways of doing things.

We think financially, operationally and strategically and this, over time, lays the foundations for a successful business.