Planfarm’s consulting arm to Horticulture is a respected leader in Western Australia’s rapidly growing industry and provides horticultural businesses with unprecedented access to professional support and data.

Currently delivering LEVEL UP HORT, a transformative program exclusively designed to support vegetable and onion businesses across Australia, ensuring increased profitability and improved long-term business performance. Spanning five years, from 2023 to 2028, this fully funded initiative provides participants with specialised horticulture business consulting, valued at $10,000 per year—a remarkable total benefit of $50,000 at no cost to the participant.

LEVEL UP HORT has been crafted to elevate your business vision, whether that is expansion, maximising profits or diversifying your business. One thing is certain, to turn your vision into reality, understanding every facet of your business is essential. This program enables you to delve deep into the drivers behind the numbers in your business, offering advantages such as internal target setting, data informed strategic decision-making, and the ability to fine-tune internal efficiencies for optimal field-to-income translation.

This groundbreaking project is fully funded by Hort Innovation, utilising vegetable and onion research and development levies, together with contributions from the Australian Government (Project Number: MT22009). Act now to secure your place, as program participant numbers are limited each year.

For enquiries and enrolments on this project, visit the LEVEL UP HORT website or contact Project Manager Steff Carstairs direct on 0428 712 852 or st***@pl******.au

In addition to delivering LEVEL UP HORT, back in 2017 when vegetables WA and the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) looked to develop a financial and production benchmarking analysis for Western Australian horticulture, they partnered with Planfarm. Our unique and powerful level of knowledge provides clients with levels of business innovation and robust decision making that makes them the leaders in the field.

The end goal with Planfarm Horticulture is to ensure that you enjoy improved levels of business and financial management, resulting in higher profitability. For example, ask yourself these questions on the standard service areas for Planfarm clients;

• Have you been able to achieve income per hectare result while keeping your costs as a percentage of income below 70%? This is known as operating efficiency and is a key driver of business profitability.
• Are you achieving 8% to 15% returns on capital?
• Do you produce Key Operating Performance ratios?
• Do you produce Single or Multiple Enterprise Gross Margin Analysis?

Additionally, Planfarm Benchmarking brings objectivity to the analysis of your performance, identifies strengths and weaknesses and creates a basis for good decision making. Forward thinking and planning provides strategies that guarantee you the very best chance of prolonged success, whilst exposing the business to the least amount of risk.

Clients of our Horticulture services also receive additional insights from our complimentary Landline newsletters, as well as access to the Herbicide Guide app.