ConsultAg Services

The Right Team For The Job

Our team of consultants and support staff has diverse, specific skills. Clients can take advantage of individual consultant skills depending on their changing needs, without the need to change firms.

Our services include:

• Farm Management
• Agronomy
• Financial Management
• Feasibility Analysis
• Business Planning
• Succession Planning
• Research
• Field Days and Seminars
• Newsletters
• Group Facilitation
• Agricultural Support Systems

Farm Management

We assist clients to manage their resources to achieve a profitable return for their business.

Human:		labour management, management skills and practices
Capital:		capital allocation, gearing
Land:		efficient and sustainable use, cost effective expansion
Plant:		cost effective purchases, lease, hire, contract

Agronomy

Agronomy Planning

The following independent agronomic services can be tailored to your individual needs:

• Rotational planning - crop and pastures
• Gross Margin analysis of cropping and animal enterprises
• Input planning - fertiliser and pesticide
• Variety selection
• Herbicide resistant management
• Independent crop nutrition and soil amelioration advice
• Independent soil test interpretation

In Paddock Agronomy

Our agronomic planning is backed up by in paddock checks at timely intervals based on seasonal requirements.

• Identification and management of insects and diseases
• Timely in paddock herbicide recommendations for crop and pasture management
• In paddock crop diagnosis of crop limitations and deficiencies
• Seasonal crop nutrition recommendations

Financial Management

Financial Management is crucial to ensuring profitable returns from the business. We assist clients to measure their financial performance and identify problem areas and solutions for improvement.

• Annual cash flow budget projections
• Analysis of production and profit performance
• Analysis of cost
• Enterprise margin analysis (gross margins)
• Preparation of estimates for assistance with tax planning
• Preparation of submissions for financial institutions.

Feasibility Analysis

How do you know what the best option for your business will be? We provide a detailed analysis of the options considering the resources and business/personal goals of our clients.

• Farm purchase
• Machinery purchase
• Farm lease and share farming
• Enterprise analysis
• Business opportunities

Business Planning

By having a focus, clients achieve better personal and business results. We assist in the development of a business plan incorporating 10 areas, which are key drivers of the business. The 10 key areas we identify are:

1. Financial
2. Productivity
3. Management
4. Land Resources
5. Marketing
6. Life Style
7. Family
8. Personal Development
9. Estate Planning
10. Retirement

Succession Planning

With our ability to work closely with all family members and understand the personal and business structure issues, we are well placed to help clients develop a workable succession plan.

All the profit and success of a business can be lost without suitable wills and protection of assets.

Research

ConsultAg provides co-ordination of on farm trials by assisting in the design, management and analysis of farmer and farmer group research. Research involves both agronomic and economic analysis.

ConsultAg is currently involved in several Grains Research & Development Corporation (GRDC) projects:

• CAG1 - Financial Impacts of Frost on the WA Grains Industry
• HOR6 - Assessing Risk to Encourage Farm Change
• CFG2 - Precision Farming for Profit and Sustainability

Field Days and Seminars

On topical issues, examples include:

• Frost
• Rust
• Business Planning
• Strategic Planning
• Post Seeding Review
• Field Walks
• Client Tours

These events provide practical, timely information and opportunities for client fellowship and interchange of experiences and ideas.

Newsletters

We provide:

• Monthly hard copy newsletters on relevant topics
• Fast Facts on time critical issues (fax)
• Spray Guide a ready reference for grain growers for herbicide, pesticide and fungicide information.
• Specific calculation tools:

- screenings calculator
- farm gate pricing

Group Facilitation

• ConsultAg assists groups to identify and achieve goals and objectives.
• ConsultAg co-ordinates Top Crop groups and group activities.
• ConsultAg is able to assist groups to identify needs and co-ordinate discussion to arrive at agreed outcomes.

Agricultural Support Systems

With the increasing need to maintain and analyse accurate business and production records, ConsultAg can help you establish management systems that are simple to use and provide timely information to assist management.

• Office Management Systems
• Paddock Recording Systems
• Quality Assurance Recording
• Custom Designed Recording/Invoicing Systems