Profitable Farmer

# 4 - Run your farm like a professional AFL team

Imagine you are the manager and coach for the Adelaide Crows AFL team.
Your role is simple.  Hire and train the best team to win the premiership.
You have to focus on
Ensuring you have the best forwards, midfield and back
Ensure you have enough money to get the whole thing to work
Ensure the players work as team
Ensure they remain focused on training
Ensure they focus on winning the game
Ensure each player does their job properly and focuses on their job
Ensure the fans keep showing up to cash flow your business
Running a farming business is no different to this.
As the leader your goal is to:-
Ensure you are clear on the objectives and goals of the business
Ensure you recruit the right team
Ensure each team member works together as a team
Ensure you manage this process, and hire and fire accordingly.
Ensure you have enough money to pay for everything
Ensure things get done on time on budget
The problem is (more often than not)  YOU are the leader and the PLAYER of ALL positions.
Can you imagine being the manager of an AFL team AND being ALL players on the field?  You really would become the jack of all trades and the master of none.
While you are doing the job in the attack, who is looking after protecting your goal posts?
As an owner, you wear so many hats.  You are:-
The CEO – the person that has to set the direction of the business
The Marketing Manager – manage the website, social media presence and finding customers
The Operations Manager – ensure that all of the jobs get done on time
The Human Resource Manager – ensure you hire the right people, keep the team motivated and doing the right things
The Administration Manager – someone has to clean the sheds and maintain the yards and its often you
The Finance Manager – you need to pay the bills, set budgets, read profit and loss statements
And somehow – you need to fit this in ALL while still being a parent, friend, look after your health and have a relationship!!!!
Just by writing this I feel burnt out!!!!
If you’re not careful – the business takes control of you instead of you controlling it.
In this week’s free podcast we explore  ‘How to build a team to get things done’.
We have also included a really good resource here where we outline every job that gets done on a farm so you can see what each role on your farm needs to do.
Download it here
See you next time,
Andrew Roberts
p.s take some time to clarify all of the roles in your business.  It will really help you look at your business just like an AFL manager/coach would.  It will help you see ways to create more efficiency.

# 3 - Generate more profit by getting your financial records in order

In this Pod cast you will learn: 
How setting up your financial records will make you more money
Why you need a budget (you can also download a great budget template)
Why benchmarking will always help you improve your profit
An unusual idea Andrew was taught by a billionaire which helped him generate more flow of money
Understand how the law of vacuum effects you and what you can do about it

# 2 - What Needs To Happen Before You Become A Highly Successful Farmer

Summary of Episode 2
Why working harder is NOT the answer
Having goals is important, but there are many other things you also need to work on
If you don’t believe you can ever run a great farm, you won't
The number one thing you need to work on to be a highly successful farmer.
The habits of a top performing business owner

# 1 - The Skills You Need To Be A Top 5% Farmer

Summary: 
Why you need to learn business skills to be a top 5% farmer
The definition of a real business and why most farmers never achieve this
A summary of the skills that you need to master to run a great business
Why you need to think very differently if you want to run a great business
The steps you need to take to get your farm to operate without you there