Articles, Podcasts + Research
Agrista’s Winter Round-Up ❄️
This season's insights: Efficiency, Emissions & Articles that Matter.
Production, Not Marketing, Drives Trading Cattle Profits
Challenging the belief that successful cattle trading relies on marketing.
Ruminati: Unpacking Emissions Efficiency (Part 2)
🧩 Profit, productivity, and emissions: it’s all connected.
Ruminati: Unpacking Emissions Efficiency (Part 1)
🔎 Emissions, efficiency, and what it actually means for your farm.
🍂Agrista’s Autumn round-up🍂
A seasonal newsletter with workshops, podcasts, and a Benchmarking opportunity.
Digging Deeper Podcast
Digging Deeper: Episode 11
Benchmarking success.
Insights with John Francis.
The Profit Gap
Why producers who measure and improve outperform the average. An article written by consultant Juan Martín Dutra da Silveira.
Understanding cost of production
It’s a good time to really understand your cost of production. An article written by John Francis, Director Agrista.
Why stay in wool sheep?
Investigating and comparing various farm enterprises with wool sheep.
Is there still a profit in wool? 🧶
Improving what you know delivers more value than moving to what you don’t.
Pathways to Profit in Goat Businesses
Improve your business performance by understanding and optimizing production costs.
Mary Had a Little Lamb, It’s Fleece Was Worth Bugger All.
Agrista's farm benchmarking data shows prime lamb enterprise profits are lagging.
Emission Dynamics in Self-Replacing Merino Businesses
Exploring Carbon Emissions in Self-Replacing Merino Businesses.
Comparison of $ Performance in Commercial Breeding Enterprises
Internal variability trumps inter-enterprise differences.
Prime Lamb Under Pressure and Benchmarking for Success
The key drivers impacting profitability for prime lamb producers.
Enhancing Emissions Intensity Measures in Beef Production
This article highlights the impact of livestock systems on net emissions and emissions intensity.
AgTalk S4E3 – Back to Basics – Focusing on Farm Profit Drivers
Dave Cornish talks with John Francis about getting back to basics and Farm Profit Drivers.
Making good decisions – Analysing contributions to profit
Presented to the GRDC Farm Business Update by John Francis, Director Agrista
Facing the ‘dynamic duo’: Strategies for falling prices and rising rates
An article for AuctionsPlus by John Francis, Director Agrista
How to optimise feed
A discussion with AuctionsPlus by John Francis, Director Agrista
You can’t have it all but the right KPIs can help maintain profitability
A discussion with AuctionsPlus by John Francis, Director Agrista
Is now the time to consolidate?
Written, researched and analysed by John Francis, Director Agrista
Leasing vs buying land assets for livestock grazing
Written by John Francis, Director Agrista
Boosting your Farm’s Profitability
Agrimasters Boots Off Log On! Explore the fundamentals of the farm business environment.
Buy or Lease? The critical question.
Dave Cornish talks with John Francis to discuss this often-asked question. #AgTalk Podcast
Farm productivity and profitability
Looking at the disharmony experienced when making important decisions under pressure.
Rethinking investment on farm
A discussion on finding production efficiency through internal rather than external investment.
Scaling up crop enterprises #1
What creates more wealth: a small land purchase or a large land lease?
Scaling up crop enterprises #2
Part 2: Lease big or buy small – what wins?
Scaling up crop enterprises #3
Production, economies of scale, lease cost and capital gain – what matters most?
Scaling up crop enterprises #4
Does a land value premium for small scale land purchases drive a significant difference?
Add a slice of lime for tastier profits
Liming acid soils for livestock production – a new business case using production research.
Regenerative Agriculture: an Australian farm advisor’s perspective
Division of opinion, principles, and awareness.
Goat levy, industry and producer performance indicators
An MLA funded project.
Business case for leasing vs buying land assets for livestock grazing
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.
Regenerative Agriculture – Quantifying the cost
This paper in response to financial analyses presented in the research report commissioned by the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program (NESP).
