A program focused on supporting vegetable and onion businesses to increase profitability and build long-term resilience.
grow your farm profits
Level Up Hort aims to take your business to the next level. Every business has a vision, whether to expand or grow more profit from every dollar invested, but to make it a reality you need to know what elements of your business can help you reach your goals.
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Data for success
Level Up Hort is a new fully funded national business analysis and benchmarking program for vegetable and onion FFS growers. We speak with David Ellement, of Ellement Produce in WA, who was one of the first people to embark on this advisory journey with leading farm consultants Planfarm.
Why get involved?
If you don’t measure, you can’t manage. Level Up Hort provides you with the opportunity to take a deep dive into your business and achieve the following advantages:
- Information and knowledge to continually review and improve your business financial performance and operating efficiency, set internal targets and improve processes and management to achieve these.
- Data-driven decision making to understand and fine tune your internal efficiencies and better link what happens in the field and how this transfers into income.
- Know your margin and understand why it is different to someone else’s margin.
- Address pricing with direct regard to costs and review pricing structure annually.
- Help inform tactical decisions as well as strategies to optimise return on investment.
- Provide useful material for discussion groups and guide priorities for future activities.
- Identify industry benchmarks to indicate how the industry is tracking over time.
How It Works
Why Farm Business Consultants?
Farm Business Consulting is a highly specialised and unique service that is relatively new to horticulture. The point of difference is that it matches up production and production measures with the financial metrics and reviews how every dollar spent on production is turned into income and profit.
The consultant provides a fresh set of eyes over your production and financial figures which can highlight areas of risk and also where the potential lies to improve your business performance. The service complements that of an accountant, agronomist or bank and pulls it all together to build stronger and better performing businesses.
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What experience does Planfarm and RMCG bring to the table?
Planfarm have been consulting to horticultural businesses for 6 years, and have been a well known and respected farm business consulting firm among grain producers for more than 50 years. RMCG have been working with horticulture and agricultural clients (including dairy) for more than 30 years and are highly regarded in many regions across the East Coast of Australia. The partnership of the two firms in this program offers a wealth of experience to vegetable and onion businesses across Australia.
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Frequently Asked Questions
This project has been funded by Hort Innovation using the vegetable and onion research and development levies and contributions from the Australian Government. Project Number: MT22009.