Welcome to Your Farm Business Podcast, bringing you the best in farm business thinking. We aim to bring experts to the farmer, to help manage today’s farm business risks. Mike Krause, CEO and Founder of P2PAgri, helps farmers to run more profitable businesses by providing analytics and scenario analysis from their own data, to guide their business decisions.
Farm Lending After the Royal Commission | Matt O'Dea
Matt O'Dea walked into a big four bank at seventeen and walked out roughly thirty years later, having run the agricultural division for South Australia and Western Australia. He now runs O'Dea Farm Finance from the Clare Valley — and he is unusually candid about how farm credit decisions actually get made. Mike Krause asks him what has really changed since the Hayne Royal Commission. Recommendation 1.114 requires banks to use experienced agricultural bankers on distressed farm loans and to of...
29 Jul 2026
Know Your Numbers: Inside the Farm Office of a 6,500ha Esperance Cropper | Lisa Jeitz | Ep 15
Most farmers are told to know their numbers. Lisa Jeitz actually does. In this episode of the Your Farm Business Podcast, Mike Krause steps inside the farm office of a 6,500 hectare cropping operation in Esperance, WA, run by someone who spent more than a decade as a farm business management consultant before becoming the farmer herself. Lisa shares the systems that keep the business on track: cash flow as the number one budget (under a company structure, staying solvent is a legal obligation...
15 Jul 2026
What Banks Really Look For When Lending to Farmers | Mike Krause | Ep 13
When the bank says yes to a $3 million loan, does that make it a good decision? Not necessarily. In Episode 13 of the Your Farm Business Podcast, host Tom Moir sits down with Mike Krause, founder and CEO of P2P Agri, to unpack the real relationship between farmers and their banks — and how to walk in with confidence. Drawing on four years as a bank economist and three decades helping farmers put their numbers together for lenders, Mike explains what actually motivates a bank (hint: it's their...
2 Jul 2026
What Really Motivates Your Accountant (And Why It's Not Your Profit) | Mike Krause | Ep 14
Most farmers judge their accountant by one number: how little tax they paid. But is that the right measure? In Episode 14 of the Your Farm Business Podcast, host Tom Moir sits down with Mike Krause, founder and CEO of P2P Agri, to unpack the relationship between farmers and their accountants, and the assumptions that can quietly cost you. Drawing on a consulting career spanning 200-plus farms, Mike explains what really motivates an accountant (protecting their ATO accreditation and minimising...
18 Jun 2026
Farm Succession Planning: Why "Fair" Doesn't Mean "Equal" | Mike Krause | Ep 12
Succession planning is one of the biggest risks any farming family will face — and one of the most avoided. In Episode 12 of the Your Farm Business Podcast, host Tom Moir sits down with Mike Krause, founder and CEO of P2P Agri, for an honest conversation about getting the farm from one generation to the next without tearing the family apart. Mike has helped around 20 farming families work through succession — with outcomes ranging from genuine success to outright disaster. He shares what sepa...
9 Jun 2026
What Is P2P Agri? Modelling Your Farm's Future with Mike Krause | Ep 11
What does it actually take to plan your farm's future with confidence? In Episode 11 of the Your Farm Business Podcast, host Tom Moir sits down again with Mike Krause — founder and CEO of P2P Agri — for a deep dive into the software itself: what it does, how it came about, and who it's built for. Mike reveals what "P2P" really stands for (Plan to Profit), and traces the journey from building one-off Excel spreadsheets for every farm he visited, to the "Risky Business" farming game farmers ref...
21 May 2026
From Wheat Fields to AgTech: The Story Behind P2P Agri | Mike Krause | Ep 10
What does it really take to help Australian farmers make smarter financial decisions? In Episode 10, host Tom Moir sits down with Mike Krause — agricultural economist, author, and founder of P2P Agri — to unpack his journey from wheat-breeding glasshouses at Roseworthy Ag College to building one of Australia's most trusted farm business modelling platforms. Mike shares the full story: growing up the son of a wheat breeder, studying agricultural economics at the University of New England, comp...
27 Jan 2023
Economic Outlook for 2023 with Darryl Gobbett
What is the economic outlook for 2023 and how may this impact Australian agriculture? In 2022, farmers experienced significant increases in interest rates, important input costs, particularly fertiliser, chemical and fuel, and changes to their commodity prices. While changes to these important components of the farming business are common, we haven’t experienced these large increases for some time. It’s important to be informed on what changes might be expected in 2023 so that we can be...
30 Mar 2022
Ukraine and Omicron Impact on Farmers
This week's Your Farm Business Podcast focuses on the impact of recent significant geo-political events in Ukraine, as well as the ongoing pandemic, on Australian farm businesses. Darryl Gobbett, currently a Visiting Fellow at the SA Centre for Economic Studies at the University of Adelaide, shares his thoughts on these two significant developments, particularly their impact on commodity prices, input costs, interest rates, inflation, and the value of the Australian dollar....
15 Mar 2022
Peter Aikman: A Farmer's Business Journey
Peter Aikman began his journey toward greater understanding of his farm business by trying to discover the information behind his financial data. “I wanted to improve my knowledge. I wanted more confidence in my numbers. I wanted more accuracy, transparency with business partners, whether that be people in your business or your banks and to enjoy it.” This has given Peter confidence in not only understanding his own data, but also empowering his business planning and decision-making. Fo...
26 Nov 2021
Farm business information: Making it easier and more powerful
Phil Dibben, owner of Financial Services South Australia, shares with Mike Krause the benefits of good farm business management and using the P2PAgri software to help his business and his clients. He highlighted several key advantages: Using P2PAgri is easy Using P2PAgri saves him suffering from 'death by Excel' Clarifying the farm business performance for the client and their bank Being able to use Scenario Analysis to answer 'what-if' questions is the unique advantage for farmers and advise...
6 Oct 2021
Farm Succession Planning: How to avoid the pitfalls?
Judy Wilkinson and Mike Krause continue their discussion on Farm Succession Planning in this third podcast in the series. This podcast focuses on how important it is to not be put off by some farming families' negative experiences. These can sometimes deter people in farming families from beginning the process. Mike and Judy stress how this should instead highlight how critical it is to use the right process to achieve positive outcomes, rather than avoiding action at all. F...
21 Sept 2021
Farm Succession Planning: Best process?
In this second podcast on farm succession planning, Judy Wilkinson and Mike Krause discuss what process she has found helps a farming family to achieve a positive outcome to their farm succession process. For more information, please go to P2PAgri
31 Aug 2021
Farm Succession Planning: When to get started?
Farm Succession Planning continues to be the most frequently requested topic from farmers, whatever the forum: podcast, blog or discussions with farmer groups. Why does it continue to be such a challenging issue for so many farming families? In this podcast, the first in a series of three that focuses on different issues relating to Farm Succession Planning, Mike talks with Judy Wilkinson about why it is so difficult, and when is the best time to get started in t...
30 Jul 2021
Interest Rates and Your Farm Business
Darryl Gobbet is currently a Visiting Fellow at the SA Centre for Economic Studies at the University of Adelaide. Darryl is an eminent economist and has had many roles in his successful business career. Darryl and Mike’s path first crossed in the late 1980’s at The State Bank, the predecessor the BankSA. Notably in those times interest rates reached the giddy heights of 22%. Darryl shares his thoughts on current interest rates and where he thinks they are heading, and the impact of this...
17 Jun 2021
5 Challenges Facing Farm Businesses Today
Tony Hudson is the Founder and Director of Hudson Facilitation. He shares his insights with Mike Krause of P2PAgri on what he sees to be the five significant challenges facing farm businesses today. These are challenging times for rural businesses, with increasing risks from climate variation, fluctuating commodity prices, access to export markets and increasing land prices. Tony brings a wealth of experience to his consulting in farm business management...
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