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Investigating and comparing various farm enterprises with wool sheep.
Improving what you know delivers more value than moving to what you don’t.
Improve your business performance by understanding and optimizing production costs.
Agrista’s farm benchmarking data shows prime lamb enterprise profits are lagging.
Exploring Carbon Emissions in Self-Replacing Merino Businesses.
Internal variability trumps inter-enterprise differences.
The key drivers impacting profitability for prime lamb producers.
Dave Cornish talks with John Francis about getting back to basics and Farm Profit Drivers.
Presented to the GRDC Farm Business Update by John Francis, Director Agrista
An article for AuctionsPlus by John Francis, Director Agrista
A discussion with AuctionsPlus by John Francis, Director Agrista
Written, researched and analysed by John Francis, Director Agrista
Written by John Francis, Director Agrista
Agrimasters Boots Off Log On! Explore the fundamentals of the farm business environment.
Dave Cornish talks with John Francis to discuss this often-asked question. #AgTalk Podcast
Looking at the disharmony experienced when making important decisions under pressure.
A discussion on finding production efficiency through internal rather than external investment.
What creates more wealth: a small land purchase or a large land lease?
Production, economies of scale, lease cost and capital gain – what matters most?
Does a land value premium for small scale land purchases drive a significant difference?
Liming acid soils for livestock production – a new business case using production research.
Division of opinion, principles, and awareness.
To conduct a comparison of leasing (as a tenant) vs purchasing there needs to be clarity surrounding whether it is scale or value of capital invested.
This paper in response to financial analyses presented in the research report commissioned by the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program (NESP).
This article highlights the impact of livestock systems on net emissions and emissions intensity.