Profitable Farmer

What if the real constraint in your business isn’t effort, seasons, or skill, but the role you’re still stuck playing?    For Ben and Kate, this question didn’t arrive neatly. It crept in over time.    Their journey took them far from the farm first, through university, into investment banking in London, and straight into the pressure cooker of the GFC. Long hours. High stakes. A world where structure and accountability were non-negotiable.    Choosing to come home to the family farm wasn’t about escaping work. It was about building something of their own.    What they returned to was a third-generation Darling Downs farm growing irrigated silage for Wagyu feedlots. A good business, but one run largely from people’s heads, with no clear leadership role and a heavy reliance on who was on the ground each day.    Here’s what we explore:  What it really took to come home and spend years earning influence before having authority  Why their succession took close to two years, and why slowing it down led to bette