Making Farm Businesses Stronger

24 Jun

Research has identified the critical role of farm advisors in making good financial decisions, particularly in times of drought.

The Victoria Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub is bringing industry, academics and farming groups together for an honest, thought-provoking discussion on how to better serve farmers, to ultimately make farm businesses stronger.

Farmers turn to multiple sources when making farm business decisions. There’s the agronomist, the accountant, the bank manager, and the person at the rural supplies store, to name a few!

But the information can be siloed.

Sometimes, farmers simply can’t access the most appropriate advisor for the right advice.

So how can this change and evolve to support making farm businesses stronger?

Do we need to find better ways of sharing information amongst different types of farm advisors?

What are the issues, gaps and challenges this presents?

Join the Victoria Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub for this public online webinar event, featuring key experts:

Keynote Speaker:
Chris Howard – Rural Financial Counsellor and Program Manager at AgBiz Assist, Shepparton.

Researcher Panel:

Richard Heath –Executive Director, Executive Director, Australia Farm Institute
Prof. Ross Kingwell – School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia and Chief Economist at Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre.
Dr Lucie Newsome – UNE School of Business (specialising in agriculture)

Industry Panel:

Clinton Peake – ProAdvice
Rebecca Casey – The Nature of Business

And more to come!

Hosted by Fiona Best, CEO Birchip Cropping Group

If you’d like to attend, registrations are appreciated - click here to register

THINK TANK:
Following the public webinar, there will be a closed, invite-only Think Tank.

The Webinar from Session 1 will be used to inform the closed Think Tank session, to brainstorm ideas amongst industry, farming groups and academics to improve the role of farm advisors in the financial decision-making of farmers. The goal is to come up with outcomes that can be achieved collectively and as the Vic Drought and Innovation Hub.

If you are a “farm advisor” (accountant, bank manager, consultant, agronomist etc) and would like to attend the closed Think Tank Session, please contact Kirsten Diprose: Kirsten.diprose@deakin.edu.au

This program/project has received funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund.