Profitable Farmer

Profitable Farmer

Hosted by: Farm Owners Academy

This show is all about increasing the profitability of your farm so you work smarter and not harder. Your host, Jeremy Hutchings (CEO of Farm Owners Academy), reveals the best farming business tips for more leverage...

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Podcast 117 - Are you Proactive or Reactive in Your Management?

Episode #117

So many farming families I meet feel completely REACTIVE in managing their farms. On so many levels, we often are left feeling like the business is running you, not you it. With all that is going on in a typical week,...
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Episode 116 - Robotic Agriculture is now very much a reality

Episode #116

Technology can be pretty incredible. With its exponential advancement, there is no doubt we are on the cusp of unprecedented change on-farm and across our industry.   Our game is rapidly changing, allowing us to...
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Episode 115 - Thinking like an Investor…

Episode #115

Throughout each year, I value the opportunity to invite our Investment Specialist Terry Tran to join us on Profitable Farmer.   With rising inflation, increasing interest rates, ongoing supply issues and softening...
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Episode 114 - Prioritising BEING WELL

Episode #114

It is so easy in this game to constantly put in massive hours, ensure everyone around you has what they need, and focus intently on getting the job done. An extended finish, a challenging season and ALREADY the urgent...
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Episode 113 - Invest in YOURSELF

Episode #113

So often in this game, we attend only the training put on by the R&D extension agencies or free events by our advisers. So often, we wait for a grant to become available before we commit to a course, or we focus...
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Episode 112 - Back yourself – the Farm Tender story

Episode #112

There are some genuinely impressive Australian stories of entrepreneurial success in our industry — true, unsung, modern examples of courage, initiative, determination and pioneering.   For me, Dwain Duxson and the...
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Episode 111 - Aligning Your Team To A Plan

Episode #111

We are excited to be kicking off our first podcast of 2023, we hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year break. May 2023 be your best year yet!   One of the great things about this time of year is friends...
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Episode 110 - Reflecting on our shared success

Episode #110

Business can be a very lonely place. Farming can be isolating. Sometimes… no, often… we can feel like we are ‘going it alone’.    Our challenges, failings, and issues can feel unique to us.    In my experience, when...
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Episode 109 – A Season Like No Other

Episode #109

It has once again been a unique farming season - perhaps one like no other!   In this episode, and once again, I call on Brett Stevenson, Managing Director & Founder of Market Check – the most influential,...
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Episode 108 - There is always a silver lining

Episode #108

Right now, there are many farming families facing real challenges. Extended rains, widespread flooding, the prospect of failed crops, wet paddocks and the complexities all this brings for hay carting, harvest and the...
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Episode 107 - Creating the life that you desire with Trevor Hendy, Kane Johnson & Mark Kluwer

Episode #107

Dave ‘Westy’ Westbrook here – and I have hijacked this episode of the Profitable Farmer Podcast!   For me, true wealth is about the inner success or the ‘inner hero’ that we all have inside us, and, at the end of the...
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Episode 106 - The Psychology of Resilience

Episode #106

As Part III on the important topic of RESILIENCE, I speak with the incredible Maria Ruberto – specialist in the neuroscience and deep psychology of human resilience.   Her official definition: Advancing despite...
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