Farm business constraints: is something holding you back? A constraint is something that limits or restricts people in some way in what they are doing, need to do or could be doing. It impacts on a person’s action or behaviours. Some are simple. You would like to buy...
The Strategy in drought Now what do we do? There were certainly concerns late into the winter, and as an early spring approached, with a significant (severe in many areas) deficit in soil moisture. But, with every new year, there is optimism that with the new year...
No margin no mission I’m sure you will have read something in the past that defines the vision and mission of a business, including farms. At the risk of repetition, I’m going to summarize. A vision describes the future state of the farm. It provides insight to the...
Consequences to price spikes What are your thoughts about the existence of a commodities supercycle? Whether we’re in one or not is open for debate. From some of the reading I’ve done, even economists aren’t all of the same opinion about the presence of a supercycle....
Have we been here before? I’d like to pose a question. Yogi Berra, famous New York Yankees catcher, is credited with saying “It’s like déjà vu all over again”. He had dozens and dozens of sayings that were funny but provided some meaningful life lessons at the same...
How do you and debt get along? Is your goal to be debt free? Do you think of debt as being a necessary evil? Any answer will be very much a function of personal opinion – with no ‘wrong’ answers. I regularly talk to people who would very much like to be out of debt....
