ABOUT US
For over four decades, Farmanco has been a leading advisory firm in Australia's agricultural sector, offering expert guidance to more than 750 farm businesses. Founded in 1978 as the Dowerin and Districts Farm Management Advisory Service by Ken Sevenson, Farmanco has evolved from serving 70 local farm businesses into a nationally recognized group. Today, our clients collectively produce an annual average of 6.2 million tonnes of grain, manage 1.9 million sheep that yield 8.4 million kilograms of wool, and oversee 29,000 head of cattle, all contributing to a farming asset base valued at $9.9 billion.
The Farmanco Group provides a comprehensive suite of services, including:
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Farmanco Management Consultancy: Offering specialized expertise in farm management, agronomy, and precision agronomy.
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Farmanco Bookkeeping: Helping clients maintain accurate records to enhance both productivity and efficiency.
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Farmanco Research: Leading innovations in Natural Capital Management, carbon emission audits, and benchmarking.
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Farmanco Marketing: Developing strategic grain marketing solutions.
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Primary Financial Services: Licensed to offer financial services related to swaps and derivatives for grain marketing.
With offices located across Western Australia’s Wheatbelt, Great Southern, and South Coastal regions, and a strategic presence in Albury, New South Wales, Farmanco serves clients throughout NSW, Victoria, and Queensland. Our extensive regional presence enables us to provide robust support and hands-on service to clients across the country.
We are committed to offering impartial, client-focused consulting services that are both professional and relevant. By building respectful, long-term relationships with our clients and gaining deep insights into their operations, we are able to deliver timely, accurate advice. Our consultants draw on a broad spectrum of information sources, ensuring that the guidance we provide is comprehensive and tailored to the specific needs of each farm business.
Joint Ventures & Alliances
Agri benchmark Cash Crop is a unique network of agricultural economists, advisors, and growers in crop production. Since 2006, this global, non-profit, non-political network provides its clients in policy, industry and development aid with internationally standardised proprietary data on crop production systems and related farm economics. By combining this site-specific farm knowledge with analysis of global commodity markets and value chains we help our clients to make informed, scientifically-based decisions and thereby grow their business. Through extensive training and joint research, we deliver substantial and sustainable capacity building – in particular in development aid. Headquartered in Braunschweig, Germany, the network is coordinated by the Federal Thünen Institute and global networks.
APAL is an independent, accredited laboratory, providing soil, plant and water analytical services. APAL services a diverse range of agricultural clients and are passionate about supporting the agricultural industry to be profitable, sustainable and environmentally aware.
The Safe Ag Systems™ SaaS product is a tailored solution for the agricultural industry. It removes traditional work health and safety management methods and allows users to adopt practical methods that train, improve worker productivity and begin the behavioral change. Features include, worker arrival and departure notification, workers on site location, QR code scan safe work procedures, emergency fire or first aid alert notification, safety checklist and template builders.
Key Choice Financial Solutions is a business Farmanco is pleased to recommend for financial planning services. Our relationship with Key Choice Solutions started in 2005 when previous Farmanco Partner, Lisa Featherby moved into this business. Key Choice Financial Solutions focuses on three major areas: Wealth Accumulation through strategies such as superannuation and education funds Protecting your Wealth, if you were to have an accident or illness and could not work to pay the bills; and Preserving your Wealth by working with your Farmanco representative to ensure your Estate and Succession plan is focused, detailed and provides peace of mind. Disclaimer: Key Choice Financial Solutions Pty Ltd and Samantha Hamilton are authorised representatives of Oreana Financial Services Limited and provide financial planning services through an association with Farmanco Management Consultants. Each business is solely and separately responsible for the advice they each provide. In particular, Oreana is only responsible for the financial planning services provided by Samantha Hamilton and Key Choice Financial Solutions Pty Ltd. Key Choice Financial Solutions Pty Ltd, is a Corporate Authorised Representative of Oreana Financial Services Limited ABN 91 607 515 122 AFSL 482234.