Written by:  Cameron Weeks | Farm Business Consultant | 0427 006 944   As a sponsor of the recently held Rural Edge ‘Inspire 2023’ conference I was given the chance to represent Planfarm at a speaker and sponsor cocktail party the night before the conference...

Written by:  Jerome Critch | Grain Marketing Advisor, Director of Planfarm Marketing | 0488 404 848   Written 17th March 2023 If you are holding 2023 wheat swaps and are wondering when to roll them in to cash contracts this article is for you. If you are...

Written by:  Martin Anderson | Farm Business Consultant | 0439 150 458   With forward 3–5-year interest rates higher than the variable (approximately 2%) and farm balance sheets typically exceptionally strong is it time to rethink the use of equipment finance?...

Written by: Bronson Gledhill | Farm Business Consultant | 0497 822 681   Times are a changing and broadacre producers throughout the state are becoming accustomed to an unattractive outlook driven by our beloved operating costs (not). But the issue succeeds that...

Written by:  Nick McKenna | Agronomist | 0427 681 574   Many things in life make no distinction between being late and being wrong. You may have all the best information, an infallible plan and inscrutable logic, but if you get your timing wrong it’s the same as...

Written by: Cameron Weeks | Farm Business Consultant | 0427 006 944 “The contrast is necessary for the focus”. The 2022/23 annual review and budget season is coming to an end and in summary the experience for clients is a one of contrasting emotions. On one hand...

Written by: Graeme McConnell | Managing Director | 0418 900 065   In the last month, there have been two significant but incremental announcements that will impact the way we think about the carbon market. To start at the beginning, for those not aware an ACCU is...

Written by: Nic Sewell | Grain Marketing Advisor | 0436 606 525   This week CBH finalised the 2021/22 Harvest Pools. This is of particular interest to us as the Pools were strongly promoted to and used by Planfarm Marketing clients. As outlined in several...

Written by: Simon Leake | Agronomist | 0439 999 173   Gypsum is normally used on dispersible heavy clay soils to ameliorate hard pans by improving the soil structure. This allows roots of plants to move more freely, makes oxygen more available to roots and...

Written by: Cameron Weeks | Farm Business Consultant | 0427 006 944   In the November 2022 Landline celebrating Planfarm turning 60 I was corrected on some of the facts by none other than our founder Peter Falconer. I apologise for the inaccuracy corrected by...

Written by: Peter Newman | Farm Business Consultant | 0427 984 010   Ford beat Ferrari at Le Mans in 1966. Can lupins beat canola for gross margin in 2023? Well no! However, it comes pretty close in a couple of circumstances, so is there a case for some lupins...

Written by: Cameron Weeks | Farm Business Consultant | 0427 006 944   Do you know of many investments that are worth 300% of what they were at the end of 2017? Whilst I personally don’t have such an investment (damn!) I do know of plenty, and they are all in the...