As part of celebrating the 50th year of Planfarm, we recently caught up with a previous employee, Peter Scott who started Planfarm in 2006. Here is a reflection of his time with Planfarm. My Planfarm career – Peter Scott, Grain Marketing Advisor I was diligently...
Carbon farming has burst onto the scene of late, you’re hard pressed to attend a conference or field day without it taking centre stage. This is fuelled a by the global imperative to slow the rise of atmospheric temperatures and bring the world towards ‘net-zero’...
Farm businesses continue to grow in scale and complexity. Once machine capacity has been exhausted, increased capacity comes via the duplication or scalability of that capacity. With this duplication, in-turn, comes the requirement to engage more people, and with this...
I always have reservations writing Landline articles on Grain Markets, given how quickly things can change and how half reasonable advice can look quite poor once it has been distributed to an audience. However, I will do so today (22nd May) and will see how things...
Our farm started seeding this year with two Canadian backpackers on our team. Three weeks later, they’d left – gone to work in Kalgoorlie. We were left feeling let down, disappointed, and overwhelmed with the work that remained. Control what you can control But we...
