What’s On The Road Ahead For Your Farming Enterprise? Wednesday, February 28, 2018 -Purpose of the day -Are you aspiring, expanding or stepping back -Facilitated session - what are your farming goals -Practical Ideas on how to realise your goals -Making your goals a reality watch the live video presentation here: https://youtu.be/4ZuyS-Er1kY

1. What’s on the Road Ahead
for Your Farming Enterprise?

2. Purpose of today
Practical steps
a) Aspiring
b) Scaling
c) Stepping back

3. Outline
1. Ideas
2. Practical experiences
3. Reflection & action

4. X

6. You can own a farm

7. e-Farmony

8. Rejuvenate regional communities

9. Benefits

10. What We Do
1. Hope
2. Farm-ready
3. Match making

11. Who are investors?
1. Wealthy individuals
2. Semi-wealthy individuals
3. Wealthy farmer
4. Retiring farmer
5. Retired farmer
6. Locals
7. Friends and family
8. Self managed super
9. Equity crowdfunding (any Australian)
10. Bank
11.Yourself

12. Ownership arrangements
1. Lease to buy
2. Buy
3. Equity
4. Equity & debt
5. Vendor finance
6. Share farming
7. Profit share
8. Inherit

13. The know-how
Experts are everywhere
1st know what you want
2nd Build the relationship(s)
3rd Get in the experts

14. Howard Charles
The journey from aspiring to retiring

15. Aidan Barton
Personal insights and
Young Farmer Network

16. What solutions do you need right now?

17. Ideas:
How to realise your goals

18. 1. Hope
2. Farm-ready
3. Match making
1. Aspiring farmer
2. Scaling farmer
3. Stepping back farmer

19. Aspiring/Scaling Farmers
Hope
1. Document your plan
2. Are you hungry?
3. Talk it out
4. Meet regularly with like-minded people

20. Aspiring/Scaling Farmers
Farm Ready
1. Skills audit
2. Courses
3. Work on farms (AgDraft)
4. Lease
5. Save/invest

21. Aspiring/Scaling Farmers
Social media
Document your journey
Build an audience
Audience = opportunities

22. Aspiring/Scaling Farmers
Match Making
1. Farm entrepreneur
2. Be realistic
3. Hustle to find your farm
4. Know the landscape
5. Advisors (banks, lawyers, accountants)
6. Put your audience to work
7. Media

23. Aspiring/Scaling Farmers
Match Making
10. Pitch for your dream farm
• Farm pitching marketplace
• Document the opportunity
• Investors want proposals
• Demonstrate your skill
• Pitch 5 times a year

24. Retiring Farmers
Hope
1. Take control of your journey
2. Document your plan

25. Retiring Farmers
Farm Ready
1. Mentor
2. Leasing

26. Retiring Farmers
Match Making
1. Head hunt
2. Talk it out
3. Media
4. Social media
5. Farm Shark Tank

27. Kim Lee
What do we need to support every
generation to realise their
farming goals

28. Dianna Jacobson
Who are the experts you need
beside you to realise your
farming goals?

29. What 3 steps could you take to meet your farming goals?

30. Who else can help make
your goals a reality?

31. Regional Communities
Hope
1. Consensus
2. Social media
3. Media

32. Regional Communities
Farm Ready
1. Information forums
2. Setup mentoring
3. Setup leases

33. Regional Communities
Match Making
1. Be the match maker
2. Community farm fund
3. Community Shark Tank
4. Creative farm opportunities

34. Farm Advisors
Matching is a new way to generate work and
options for your clients
• Accountants
• Bankers
• Succession Planners
• Lawyers
• Real Estate Agents

35. Farm Advisors
Hope
• Normalise the discussion
• Sponsor match making events
• Talk to your customers directly
• Social media

36. Farm Advisors
Farm-ready
• Suggest clients lease to aspiring farmers
• Find aspiring farmers to work on client’s farms

37. Farm Advisors
Match Making
• Match farmers onto farms
• Advise your retirement-aged farmers
• Promote ownership arrangements you’ve
been a part of
• Find investment opportunities for your clients

38. Panel discussion

39. What is holding you back?

40. Best time in history to be alive
Life expectancy
Internet
Access to knowledge
Social media
Wealthy country
Can connect with anyone
If you want it, make it happen
a farmer

41. Who or what is holding you back?

42. 1 action you are going to do tonight

43. Thank-you