Meet Michael
As a fourth-generation sugar cane farmer, Michael understands better than most the pressures of farm management, profitability, compliance, expansion and future proofing the family business.
Just growing cane isn’t enough nowadays, running a successful family business is key to financial success and longevity in the agricultural sector. The expansion undertaken by the family over the last 4 years identified areas that required growth and upskilling to ensure the results and expectations by all stakeholders was being met.
With this experience and developed farm management tools, advising and supporting growers to expand their operations to improve efficiencies, take on new opportunities and build resilience in an otherwise volatile profession are now central to Michael’s focus. Always looking to improve the outcomes of sugar cane farming, Michael has participated in 2015 Project Catalyst, served on the Rabo Client Council 2017 – current, served on the board of H.C.P.S.L. 2018 – 2019 and continues to embrace data and technology to improve farming outcomes.
Meet Dianna
Dianna has spent the last 20+ years as an Accountant in the finance industry supporting businesses with compliance and advisory services.
As a business owner herself, Dianna has a keen interest in supporting family businesses achieve their desired outcomes. Data analysis together with tech adoption allows for an in depth view of a business’ systems and processes as well as outcomes. Dianna is an early adopter of cloud technologies and supports the businesses that she works with to engage with best practice systems to drive efficiencies and improve outcomes.
Understanding the importance and strength of the agricultural sector has led Dianna to develop systems and data analytics specific to the sugar industry to drive efficiencies, measure and forecast outcomes to support growers with decision making and improved financial understanding of their family businesses.