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There's a particular kind of farmer Paul Omodei can spot from across the kitchen table. Calm, clear-eyed, and somehow sleeping well at night while diesel prices spike and margins tighten. What separates them from the families quietly unravelling isn't luck, and it isn't the size of the balance sheet. It's a single mental shift Paul has watched play out again and again, sitting at the table with some of the country's highest-performing farming businesses.
In this episode of The AgriCoach Wealth & Wisdom Podcast, Ben Law sits down with Paul Omodei, Farm Business Consultant and Director at Planfarm, for a conversation that goes straight at how the best-run agricultural businesses in Australia are getting through rising input costs, an unusually tense season and no shortage of things outside their control, without losing their nerve or their family relationships along the way.
Paul has spent two decades in the room with multi-generational farming families, and he's noticed the pattern doesn't change: the ones who thrive aren't the ones with the fewest problems, they're the ones who've built a discipline into how they think, talk and decide under pressure. Ben and Paul get into why so many family operations quietly come apart long before the paddock ever lets them down, and what the families getting succession right are doing differently, well before a lawyer or an accountant is in the room.
Along the way, the two trade the practical tools they each use with their own clients (and their own families) to cut through anxiety and get back to clear thinking, plus a football analogy about business fitness that Paul leans on constantly. If your family's deep in the stress of this season, or quietly wondering who leads the business next, this is the conversation to put on before your next kitchen table sit-down.
About Planfarm: Planfarm is one of Australia's leading farm business consultancies, working alongside farming families across WA, SA and Queensland to build stronger, more resilient family businesses for the next generation – https://planfarm.com.au/