At our Farm Business Strategies workshop with Agrista on Thursday 26 Ferburary 2026, we didn’t just look ‘Over the Fence‘, we took things all the way to the farm office!
Thirty farmers keen to learn how they can improve their farm businesses came along to hear from Ellie Hays from Agrista. Ellie covered a range of business analysis tools such as different ratios that can be used to assess the performance of different aspects of a farm business, considerations for cost of production, maximising feed utilisation and different resources locally available to help guide decisions. She also provided some data from Agrista’s benchmarking programs, providing useful statistics on what elite (Top 20%) farmers are doing compared with the average.
During the day, we also heard from Jamie and Alisha Wright along with two of their employees, Luke and Dan, who provided some great insights into their farming business and how they are maximising efficiencies, employee satisfaction and family time. What a team effort! It’s rare that a farming business trusts and respects it’s employees enough to speak on behalf of it and there was certainly some great lessons in that.
To finish off the day, we had an incredibly inspirational and informative talk from another local farmer, Jarrod Amery (Amery Ag) from ‘Velu’ near Forbes. Wow, what a speaker! Jarrod provided some important learnings from his life experiences, farm business ventures and Nuffield research, which really put things in perspective and provided the room with motivation to go home and do better.
Thanks to our guest speakers as well as everyone who came along and shared their tips and tricks throughout the day. Thanks also to the wonderful ladies at the Grenfell Country Club for hosting and feeding us!
This workshop was held as part of our Over the Fence project, which is supported by the Australian Government through funding from the Climate-Smart Agriculture Program under the Natural Heritage Trust.
