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Apple’s founder, Steve Jobs said that a small company depends on great people much more than a big company does. And this is certainly true for farming and agribusiness. When it comes to retaining the best employees in your farm or agribusiness, a great workplace culture and career development opportunities...

Many sectors of agriculture have operated for several decades under a market where demand for a wide range of skills has exceeded supply. Such a skill shortage can be attributed to a range of reasons as follows:- A decline in agricultural graduates (until recent years) as a result of a...

The role of the salesperson is vital to the success of a company. Accordingly, filling a sales vacancy is a critical task in ensuring a company’s success especially given that a superior sales person can be up to six times more productive than a poor one. It is estimated that...

It’s a digital world. As your agricultural business expands, avenues for attracting employees and connecting with customers are increasingly moving into the digital age. Sure, you’ve got a website and have played around with social media, but how can you transform your business in order to stand-out from the crowd?...

A new breed of farmer is emerging who relies less on traditional thinking and more on information and resources to re-examine their production mix. Here are the top trends for those in agribusiness. The golden age of farming Industry experts, such as Simon Talbot, National Farmers Federation (NNF) CEO, predict...

Ever been stuck in a rut on the family farm? Do you think: we do things this way because this is how Grandad did them; the farm has been in the family for generations so I can’t change it; I feel a huge responsibility to keep this place going? Yet...

By Dr Ray Johnson, Managing Director Agricultural Appointments. As I have previously written, there is a digital revolution underway in Australian agriculture, now with the timely confluence of record production levels marking agriculture as one of the key “industries of the future”. But it is the digital revolution that is...

By Dr Ray Johnson, Managing Director Agricultural Appointments At the Universities and agricultural colleges offering rural and veterinary courses in Australia, there has been a dramatic change in the gender balance of students over the last 25-30 years. In many instances women now make up the majority of such training...

Patrick Lash was a successful city financier until a short course in agriculture ignited a dream. Here’s how Agricultural Appointments helped turn that dream into a totally new career path. “I grew up in Sydney on the lower north shore at Cammeray, which is pretty green and about as suburban...

The chance to work with emerging polymer technology in pesticide formulation was the lure that enticed Dr. Harsh Vardhan to make a major career jump and move from Gurgaon, India to Melbourne. Here’s why. 23 years ago, scientist Harsh Vardhan left the University of Delhi with a Master of Science...