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Stop Roping Off Your Team: How Great Leaders Create Space for Growth
Are you steering a business that people are eager to be part of, or do you struggle to attract and keep good staff? Many operators wonder why some businesses manage to build strong teams and a healthy culture. If you find yourself asking how they do it, you have taken...
Harvest Your Data, Not Just Your Crops: Carbon Prep for 2026
This article was first published in the October 2025 issue of TerraWise Insights. To get the latest updates and insights, subscribe today. Carbon accounting isn’t just paperwork - it’s fast becoming key to market access and how supply chains judge farm businesses....
High costs are here to stay – you need to manage this not just whinge about it!
There is no debating it – farming has become very expensive. Input costs have lifted, interest rates have risen, and the cost of machinery continues to grow. Whilst some of the costs are unique to farming, agriculture is not alone in regards to this. Most industries...
An introduction to Rateline
Written on the 28th November, 2025. Welcome to the first edition of Rateline. This feature article will be in the Landline newsletter immediately after each Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Board meeting and target cash rate announcement. There are eight announcements...
The Litmus Test for Business Success.
What separates a good farming business from a great one? It is a question we often hear when working with growers across Australia. What is it that the best horticultural businesses are doing that sets them apart, and what can we do in our business to improve? Many...
An AI time traveller?
AI is becoming an increasingly prevalent part of our lives, and to quote Gihan Perera, who recently ran a training session on AI for AAAC members – “the AI we see today will be the worst it ever will be” (I think this might have originally come from Sam Altman, CEO of...
Do you know your number? Why emissions intensity is the new benchmark for Aussie farmers
This article was first published in the August 2025 issue of TerraWise Insights. To get the latest updates and insights, subscribe today. There’s a phrase you might’ve heard floating around ag circles recently - “know your number.” It’s got nothing to do with stocking...
Have I missed the boat?
If you are like many, you may have heard about the government grants that are available to farmers for the phase out of live exports. Potentially, you have heard about the grants, thought to yourself “I’ll look into that,” but then got busy with spraying, selling...
Beyond the Bin – Benchmarking Your Way to Smarter Grain Sales.
Planfarm Marketing are now into our 12th year of Grain Marketing benchmarks, and at times it feels as though the previous five seasons have paved the way for a new kind of normal While we acknowledge no grain marketing strategy is ever the same, to continue to...
Learn these 4 Words: Current Relevant Significant Revered.
If I achieve anything in this article, you will remember these 4 words! I have gained a reputation for looking in the past to find the meaning of modern experience. Again, this is the starting point for this topic. In this article, we examine the need to apply...
Into the matrix: How consultant account codes differ from accountant codes.
Most farmers have their cashbook set up by a bookkeeper or themselves, designed to track what matters most for daily operations. However, when working with your consultant, some may notice that we have mapped their incomes and expenses to different codes. While the...
They’re Counting Your Emissions. Are You?
This article was first published in the July 2025 issue of TerraWise Insights. To get the latest updates and insights, subscribe today. Whether or not you’re actively measuring your farm’s emissions, chances are that someone else along your supply chain is. Did you...
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