
In this story, RCS graduate Ben Simpson of Thistlebank, QLD shares his journey of transformation. It begins when taking over a 22,830 HA cattle enterprise in 2014.
At the heart of every thriving agribusiness lies a foundation of informed decisions, sound strategies, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
The Australian agricultural landscape can be a harsh place. Drought, flood, fluctuating prices, rising costs – the odds are stacked against you. But in this battle, resilience isn’t enough. To truly succeed, you need a winning strategy, a tactical edge that competitors can’t replicate. That’s where personalised agribusiness coaching comes in. It’s your secret weapon for transforming adversity into growth.
Australian farmers fight tooth and nail. But ‘weathering the storm’ shouldn’t be your ambition. Top-tier coaching builds an agribusiness that doesn’t just survive – but creates a strong ‘now’ business and future nest egg. Finances, sustainability, risk…we don’t just tackle problems, we build a system that turns challenges into wins. Meet your Advisors
Andrew Zerner | Advisor & Coach
In the face of challenges like drought, fluctuating cattle prices, and high interest rates, our specialized advice is custom-fit to your property, business, and team, offering the precise support required.
Our advisory services tackle every aspect of your business, fostering profitability, productivity, land improvement, and an enhanced quality of life, setting the stage for sustainable success.
With our advisors, your knowledge evolves into practical skills through coaching. We offer personalized guidance, empowering you to make impactful decisions, boost confidence, and realize your farming potential.
RCS advisory and coaching welcomes all producers, providing a professional and supportive environment that values every family member and business partner's contribution to crucial decisions.
If you're intrigued by the potential of our advisory and coaching services, take action today. Express your interest, connect with the right advisor, and embark on a journey of growth through assessments, recommendations, and ongoing consultations. Your agribusiness's resilience and growth await your decisive steps.
Unlock the full potential of your Investment in Grazing for Profit® or Farming & Grazing for Profit® with our proven Next Steps Coaching Program. This program is for graduates of our 7-day programs and will extract the utmost value from your attendance though one-to-one connection you with our seasoned team of expert coaches.
Each member of our coaching panel boasts a successful track record of implementing the RCS principles on their own properties.
All our coaching programs are customised specifically for you.
All our coaching programs are customised specifically for you.
In this candid interview RCS Advisor and Coach Dom Walker opens up about his love of agriculture, the landscape, people and how he was lucky enough to find himself working in the ‘best job in the world’.
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Our practical business planning involves an on-farm property visit to ensure we identify all issues and the situation is well understood. You will work with our expert advisor to implement an easy-to-understand framework that improves business management. Our process considers all resources in your business, including the skills of the people involved. It can include the use of the RCS business analysis and benchmarking software, ProfitProbe®, to conduct a detailed assessment of your financial situation.
Managing for the future takes different skills and knowledge than what has been required in the past. RCS can assist you to create and maintain a regenerative, productive and profitable farming and grazing business. Individually or within your management team, we can analyse the current situation, develop options, and implement and manage change in your farming and grazing methods
Our advisor will work with you to create an infrastructure development plan. To do this they assess the development requirements of your enterprises, the natural resources available and the current goals and constraints of the business. With this in mind the completed plan will suit your budget and timeframe.
Integrating ProfitProbe®, our economic benchmarking tool, with our business analysis templates, our advisors can provide sound financial analysis of your business. This can include;
RCS has the technical knowledge, skills, benchmarks and business analysis models to complete pre-purchase assessments so you can buy with confidence. Doing due diligence in assessing your property shouldn’t come after you’ve already committed to a purchase. We will determine the suitability of the land, the condition of infrastructure, potential problems, carrying capacity, and development opportunities of the purchase.
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RCS succession and continuity planning facilitates families to create their desired futures. Our advisors can assist with navigating conflicts, complex decision-making, stress and future visions. The sooner you start succession and continuity planning, the more likely you will have a positive outcome. This process can involve establishing individual vision and goals, family meetings, independent business analysis with benchmarks and forward cash flow and balance sheet projections.
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In this story, RCS graduate Ben Simpson of Thistlebank, QLD shares his journey of transformation. It begins when taking over a 22,830 HA cattle enterprise in 2014.
Dennis Donohoe, farm manager with Aminya Pastoral, is a seasoned producer with decades of experience, and his story is a testament to how even minor changes in farming practices can lead to significant improvements in productivity and land health.
Once you have ownership as to why planning is important, the next ingredient is to work out where and how you will do your planning. When you write something down you change your relationship with the content. I cannot emphasise enough the power of getting your thoughts and plans out of your head onto paper or the computer.
The season in SA and Tassie is particularly tight right now with little or no useful rain since early January and a generally failed 2023 spring prior to that. Right now, across southern Australia and much of the eastern NSW, you won’t need to drive far out into the countryside to see cattle and sheep grazing (and lying on) hay and silage trails lined across paddocks.
Martha Lindstad and partner Robert James are farm managers on ‘Karalee’, Enngonia NSW. Both have travelled different paths to being where they are. Martha is originally from Norway, growing up on a three hectare farm before travelling to New Zealand and eventually the Pilbara in Western Australia. It was here that she saw the benefits of sustainable farming for the country and livestock.
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