Supporting multi-enterprise agriculture and farming businesses

Hands-on business, operations, people and systems support for family farms and agribusinesses that have outgrown the way they run.

Farm businesses run on long days, seasonal peaks and knowledge held by one or two key people. The work in the paddock gets done, but the people and pay records, safety systems and processes, compliance paperwork, asset registers, and financial admin behind it are usually the last focus behind crops and animal needs. BusinessRx steps in to help build and run those foundations with you, so the business can keep moving through harvest, lambing, calving and every season in between.

We work remote-first across Australia, with on-site time available across Ballarat, the Central Highlands and regional Victoria when the job needs boots on the ground. The work is planned around your calendar, so it fits around sowing, shearing, harvest, and sale days rather than competing with them.

Does this sound familiar?

Your operations are costing you time and money if more than one of these rings true:

  • Rosters, pay rates and award classifications for seasonal and casual staff get worked out from memory each year

  • Safety procedures, chemical records and inductions live in someone's head rather than in a system anyone can follow.

  • Livestock, spray and treatment records are spread across notebooks, spreadsheets and phones

  • The farm accounts are in Xero but the reporting doesn't tell you which enterprise is making money

  • Grant and funding opportunities come and go because nobody has time to prepare the application

  • A family member manages the books, the systems and supplier relationships, and nobody else knows how to step in and do the job

  • Family business meetings happen over dinner, with no agenda, record or clear decisions

  • Succession is on the horizon, but the business is not documented well enough to hand on to the next generation

You've built something nobody else can do - but internally, things aren’t quite working as good as they could be.

What we deliver

  • Seasonal workforce setup: position descriptions, a recruitment and onboarding workflow, induction packs, and an end-of-season offboarding process.

  • Rostering, timesheets and award records: platform setup, with classification records aligned to the Pastoral or Horticulture Award and reviewed by your employment law adviser.

  • Farm safety system: documented procedures for high-risk tasks, site and machinery inductions, and an incident and hazard register.

  • Chemical and spray records: a chemical register, spray records, and storage and handling procedures.

  • Compliance calendar: licence renewals, audits, inspections and reporting deadlines mapped across the year.

  • Xero and farm software setup: a clean-up and configuration of Xero, AgriWebb and AgSafe.

  • Monthly reporting and admin routines: enterprise performance reports and a digital filing structure.

  • Farm operating manual: how the business runs, who does what and when, a ‘living document’ that can be kept current as things change.

  • Grants and funding: a funding scan and grant calendar, application coordination, and acquittal reporting.

  • Farming enterprise governance: a meeting structure, a decision log, role clarity, and governance support for co-ops and grower groups.

  • Succession readiness: a key-person risk assessment, documented critical roles, and a handover plan, coordinated with yourself, your accountant and solicitor.