If you are serious about ensuring your business survives the savage cuts to your income, then you must be prepared to make changes to improve your position.

Often I hear people say that they haven’t got the time to leave their business for half a day or even a few hours to learn by attending a meeting or a discussion group. The time invested away is worth a lot more than the cost of replacing you physically on the farm.

The information learned or seen in practice will give you the confidence to make low risk decisions with a high positive outcome for you and your business. This investment in time should be worth £100/hour, as the result of your decisions could be worth £1,000’s to your business.

Survival in the next 12 months is a priority but you are in a long term business. The decisions you may take in the next 12 months could have implications for 5 years and ahead. Don’t you want to make sure that they are the right ones?! There is very little room for error!
Making no decision is the worst scenario. In this situation, with the world changing rapidly around you, there will not be a future.
Free up some time and learn to take some low risk decisions for your business now.

For help in analysing and providing solutions to freeing up your most precious and free resource contact Gerard at gerardfinnan@fcgagric.com or your local FCG office.