After 21 Years, I Bid Farewell

Twenty-one years ago, I joined 11 others at Planfarm. Apart from me, only Graeme McConnell remains, and there are now 50 team members at Planfarm. I was encouraged to join the team by Walter Milsteed and Andrew Rintoul at the Narrogin office (back room of a shared old...

Strip & Disc Farming: The long and the short of it

2020 was a crazy time. You may recall the mass hysteria gripping the nation about a highly divisive topic. Friends became enemies, popular opinion defeated science, and those with differing views made themselves known and were, in many cases, promptly ostracised. Of...

You don’t know what you don’t know until you do

How adept are you at analysing your horticultural business and understanding what drives profit?  Before I joined the horticulture team at Planfarm, I thought I had a pretty good handle on economic principles, how farm businesses operated, and what made them succeed....

10 Things You Can Do For Succession Before You Do Succession

Succession occupies ample space in the minds of farming families. Good or bad, it takes time, energy, and money to do it well. It can also take those same elements not to do it well. The aim of taking a proactive long-game approach to succession is to provide...