Score your farm business against the 6 pillars top producing farms run on.
A free diagnostic built from 10+ years of coaching Australia's most successful farm owners. You'll see exactly where your leverage is and what's holding you back. Your Farm Operating System score is waiting.
A self-scored audit: 24 questions across the six pillars, scored in 5 minutes. Your Freedom Farm Readiness Band (0-100%) and a 10-page Results Workbook. Plus: 5 real farm transformation stories to learn how other owner-operators turned their businesses around.GET THE FREE CHECKUP
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Jeremy "Hutch" Hutchings · Managing Director, Farm Owners Academy
You're running the business on instinct. And instinct has a ceiling.
Lots of farm owners are great operators. But great operators measure paddocks, not businesses. So when something stalls - profit, team, time - there's no honest way to know which pillar to fix first.
You can't fix what you can't see. Without the right data and assessment, you're flying blind. You're working on the wrong pillar. Strength in one pillar rarely makes up for weakness in another. You're paying every break twice. Three weeks off. Three months of mess to come back to. You're guessing at the next move. Which might not be the highest impact initiative to focus on."I thought we could outwork it, that hard work would get us there. At that time we would be up at 3:30 every morning doing 12+hour days. There was always something missing and we didn’t know what the missing piece was."
Andrew Kath
Kathle Farms · Dairy · Numurkah, VIC
An assessment. A score. A workbook. Yours free.
Not another generic quiz. The Farm Operating System Checkup is based on the same six pillars we use in our flagship coaching programs to help our members build their version of a Freedom Farm.
The 10-Page Results Workbook.
Once you've completed your score, this guide walks you through the results in detail, and what to do about them.
What each Freedom Farm Readiness Band means. What "best in class" looks like across all six pillars. Why a "great operator" score can still hide a fragile business.Every farm business sits in a band. Where's yours?
Six pillars. The same lens top-performing farms run on.
The Checkup scores each pillar from 1 to 5 across each of the questions. Your overall score determines your Freedom Farm Readiness Band, and more importantly, shows you which pillars to lean on first.
Clarity
Create your magnetic vision, the one the team and family can rally around.
Financials
Track your numbers so the calls you make are made with eyes open.
Operations
Document procedures and systemise the routine work the business runs on.
Planning
Focus on the highest-priority work, and stop drowning in the rest.
Bricks
Remove the obstacles and distractions getting between you and the work.
Teamwork
Build a winning team capable of getting the job done without you in the cab.
Strength in one pillar rarely compensates for weakness in another. The Checkup shows you which pillars to lean on first.
One sample question. So you know what you're getting into.
Every question works the same way. Read the statement. Score yourself honestly from 1 to 5.
"The procedures our farm runs on are documented and followed by everyone, not held in my head."
This series is for farmers who already know they need to change something.
The farmer who's wondering whether they're building the right way, or just staying busy. The farmer who's stepped back from the cab but isn't yet leading the business strategically. The farmer who wants a different way to do this, and wants to hear from others who've found one.It's not for: anyone looking to be told what to do, anyone who thinks the answer is just to push harder, or anyone who already has it all figured out.
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Score yourself from 1 to 5 across all six pillars. Five minutes, no fluff.
5 minutesGet your score and the workbook
Your Freedom Farm Readiness Band, six-pillar breakdown, and the 10-page Results Workbook. Instantly.
InstantPlus: 5 real farm transformation stories.
Five unfiltered Profitable Farmer podcast episodes with farm owners who've done the work. Real numbers, real decisions, and the turning points behind five of the most remarkable transformations we've seen.
Diesel & Rhianne Low · Becoming Freedom Farmers
Lachlan & Anna Sutton · Scaling From Scratch
Andrew & Cassandra Kath · From Rock Bottom to Owning the Farm
Matt & Hayley Watson · Rebuilding Against All Odds
Sam & Carla Armytage · Building the Business That Runs Without You
"Five years ago we were at near-breaking point."
Sam and Carla Armytage were doing everything right by every traditional measure. They were working hard. Running a serious cropping operation. Multi-generational. Reputable. Successful, on paper.
Inside the business, it was a different story. Stress was significantly impacting their marriage and family life. They were under-resourced, unable to take a holiday, and burnt out.
In less than three years inside Platinum Mastermind, they transformed their business, their team, and their family life. Today they've successfully expanded the operation, improved profitability, and enhanced their quality of life. They've built a foundation their children and future generations can be equally proud of.
Built by farmers, for farmers.
Farm Owners Academy has spent over a decade helping farming families across Australia and New Zealand create more profit, more control and more freedom in their farm business. The 6-Pillar Framework underneath this checkup is the same one we use with members of our flagship programs to help them build their version of a Freedom Farm.
Financials
Operations
Planning
Bricks
Teamwork
Find out where your farm business actually stands.
Five minutes. Twenty-four questions. A score that tells you exactly where the leverage is, and a workbook that shows you what to do about it.
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