'Alternative business funding models' - 2017 Mingenew Farm Business Update

Name: 'Alternative business funding models' - 2017 Mingenew Farm Business Update
Uploaded: 2017-02-15T11:07:31+00:00
Duration: 1 min 18 s
Channel: Gerri the NVT Guru
Description: Gerri the NVT Guru explains how farms can attract corporate investment through leasing, share farming, and joint ventures. Farms need sufficient scale…

15 Feb 2017 · 1 min

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Gerri the NVT Guru explains how farms can attract corporate investment through leasing, share farming, and joint ventures. Farms need sufficient scale, proper management, and governance systems. The model layers management, an advisory board, and financial governance to align investors with farm managers.

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So some of the things that we've been talking about today is the opportunities in introducing new capital into farming businesses from the corporate sector. And some of the messages that I'd like to leave you with relate to what I see as the future for capital in a farming business. Most farming businesses too really take advantage of corporate capital, will need to have a reasonable scale and they will need to have management systems and governance systems which work both for the corporate investor and for the person who is managing or leaving capital in the farm. Now today we were talking about what would those opportunities be? Some of them are fairly traditional like leasing and share farming. But some of the newer type opportunities will involve things like joint venturing where a corporate person brings capital into the business and so the capital is shared. And then there's an overarching model which will provide management, an advisory board and some of the governance factors such as financial management.