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, independent grain marketing and education service for...

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 end of our season.  A season that promised so...

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 day, our farming businesses are tools to help us...

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 adversity.  Love this.  I find how our mind works so...

To speak plainly, family relationships need to be resilient in family business.  To be honest - so often, behind closed doors, simply, they are not.   As Part II on the topic of RESILIENCE, I speak with Farm Owners Academy Director and Soul Pleaser Program...

With R U OK Day taking place last week, I wanted to take a few moments to share a business coaching principle that changed my life. In my younger years, I constantly struggled with poor self-esteem, low confidence, anxiety and, at times, depression. In addition, I was...

In leadership, sometimes it pays to take the highest perspective possible. Today, as we find ourselves navigating global political unrest, war, pandemic recovery, disease threat, rising interest rates, inflation and significant seasonal volatility, this has never been...

As our world continues to change, our commodity and investment markets continue to be impacted by an ongoing series of externalities.  To help us understand the current market conditions and to offer direction on navigating a significant recent market correction, I...

Succession is often described as a complex, challenging, confronting, highly emotional and intense process.  At its worst, succession can tear families apart, damage relationships and be the demise of significant farming dynasties. We have all seen this.  In this...

Growing up, like most kids, I had three heroes: Mel Gibson, Greg Norman, and Phil Kearns.  All Aussies. All champions in their own way in their chosen field.  To celebrate our 100th Profitable Farmer Podcast episode, it gives me great pleasure to introduce Wallaby...