building resilient families & businesses in a time of volatility...
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Building Resilient Families &
Businesses in a Time of Volatility
& Change (Day 2)
Rob Napier, Napier Agrifutures
Orange, New South Wales, Australia
Presented at the
Monaro Farming Systems WorkshopNimmitabel, NSW
Thursday 8 September, 2011
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Introduction
• Welcome
• Why are we here?
• Doing something new
• Expected outcomes
• Program for the day
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What is the World Telling Us?
• Hot, flat & crowded
• Three certainties – death, taxes & volatility
– the world is fragile & nervous
• We must do more with less
• Family and small business challenges
• The boiling frog problem
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Events of the Last Six Months
• Middle East unrest – oil price volatile
• Live cattle export ban
• High Aussie dollar & volatile
• Australia – a two speed economy
• Big increases in electricity prices
• USA political grid lock - European debt problems
• Cotton price falls from $1000 to $500/bale
• Wool price almost double last year – but volatile
• Dire food security & climate change predictions
• Carbon Farming Initiative – a cattle station locked up
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What Leading Farmers DoWhat is your score?
YourScore
/10
1. Plan from the outside in not the inside out
2. Have written individual, family & business
goals + a business plan
3. Plan to benefit from providing environmental
services
4. Seek & evaluate new technologies
5. Be active in customer-driven co-ordinated
value chains
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What Leading Farmers DoWhat is your score?
YourScore
/10
6. Work together with like-minded people
7. Grow the business using new management
models
8. Prepare risk management plans
– ask what if?
9. Look for opportunities to add businesses
10.Achieve excellence in people development,
management & succession planning
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Strategic Opportunities & Threats
‘The future will always belong to those
who see the possibilities before they
become obvious’
Danny Klinefelter –
Twenty Five Attributes of the 21st Century Farm Executive
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Opportunities & Threats
1. Energy
2. Water
3. Agriculture and the environment are now linked
4. New technologies
5. The ‘land’ business
6. Consumer demands
7. Government policies
8. Realignment of global centres of power & production
9. Structural change
10. Food prices, input costs, global economies
11. Market shocks
12. Unknown changes
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Opportunities & Threats
1. Energy
• Agriculture is now in the energy business
• Increasing cost of energy
• Renewable energy opportunities
• Understanding government policies
2. Water
• By 2050 seven billion out of nine billion people will face
chronic or critical water shortages
• Get hold of it, control it, trade it
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Opportunities & Threats
3. Environment
• Agriculture & the environment are now linked
• Income opportunities
4. New technologies
• Yield increases
• Energy use efficiency
• Plant & animal breeding (conventional & GMO)
• Precision farming
• Communication & information management
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Opportunities & Threats
5. The ‘land’ business
• The value of quality land will rise
• Land as a business – wealth creation
• Creating a cash rich balance sheet
6. Consumer demands
• Understand customers and food trends
• Integration with food/tourism/health/recreation industries
• Perceptions are reality
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Opportunities & Threats
7. Government policies (domestic & international)
• Understanding domestic policies &trends
• Understanding our trading partners’ politics & policies
• Keeping an eye on the rest
8. Re-alignment of global centres of power & production
• China/ India
• Commodity production in low cost countries
– Brazil, Eastern Europe, Russia, Africa
• How can high cost western countries stay in the commodity
race?
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Opportunities & Threats
9. Structural change
• U.S.A. – 6% farms (125,000) 75% ag. output.
Australia - 20% broadacre farms produce 75%
• Understanding economies of size
• The future of family farming
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Opportunities & Threats
10. Food & fibre prices, input costs, global economies
• By 2030 need 50% more food with
- less water
- less arable land
- fewer nutrients
- diminishing fossil fuels
- more erratic & warmer climate
• Will the profitability of food production increase?
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Opportunities & Threats
11. Market shocks
• Terrorism
• Food safety scares – BSE, H1N1, etc
• Government policy shifts
• Civil unrest/refugees/war
• Global financial crises
• Corporate decisions
• Production booms/busts
12. Unknown changes
(We need to be able to anticipate and manage whatever
comes along)
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What is the Napier family doing about all
this?
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Our small farm is involved in the
following businesses -
• Energy
• Water
• Tourism/recreation/health
• Food
• Environmental management
• Real estate
• Education
• Charity/legacy
• Potentially aged care/art gallery/retailing, etc
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Family Farm Resilience & Teamwork
The Role of Farm Family Meetings
• Why are regular family meetings so important
• What should be on the agenda
• Why do they rarely occur
• Why are they such a challenge
• How to initiate meetings and maintain the
momentum
• Leadership
• Meeting guidelines & memoranda of understanding
• Handy hints
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How Can Your Family Prepare a
Strategic Plan
1. Situation analysis – external & internal
2. Mission Vision Culture
3. Long term goals
4. Short term objectives
5. Actions (Implementation)
6. Control & review
Rob Napier 2010
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Homework Before Next Meeting
1. Discuss workshop outcomes with family members
(preferably with both on & off-farm members)
- future of families with a farm business
- opportunities & threats
- strategic planning process
- regular family meetings to seize the opportunities
2. Conduct two formal family meetings with a focus on
- family, personal & business goals
- strategic plans
- commitment to regular (say) six monthly meetings
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Summary of the Day
1. How might the MBTI improve your family/business
- communication
- people management
- change management
- decision making
- planning
- creativity
- teamwork
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Summary of the Day
2. Some questions for you to consider
- how can you improve energy use efficiency?
- have you secured sufficient water (quantity & quality)
for the future?
- how can you earn income from environmental services
(eg, the Carbon Farming Initiative)?
- how are you preparing for more extreme weather
events?
- how will you respond to higher fertiliser & chemical
prices?
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Summary of the Day
2. Some questions for you to consider (continued)
- how can your small business ‘be small but act big’?
- how can you become good at ‘seeing what others don’t
see’?
- who will lead your gathering of strategic information?
- how can other members of your family become
involved?
- what steps are you taking to improve family planning,
communication & creativity?
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Summary of the Day
2. Some questions for you to consider (continued)
- who will take responsibility for family meetings?
- how can you benefit from the different personalities in
your family?
- how will you keep up the ‘revs’ on these issues? –
‘if it is to be, it is up to me’
3. Where to next?
4. Discussion & close