Speaker - Rob Dawes, Rob Dawes Consulting - Where to for Farm Inputs and how do Farmers get a better deal.
- By: "Farm Tender" News
- Farm Tender, DelayPay & Farm Inputs
- Feb 09, 2024
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Speaker - Rob Dawes
About Rob
Rob Dawes has 35 years of procurement experience in Agricultural inputs and has a passion for helping primary producers answer the question, “Am I paying a fair price for my Farm inputs and services?”. Rob provides benchmarking and ongoing hands-on assistance to ensure his clients have transparent pricing, low cost and reliable supply of key agricultural inputs.
Danny will be speaking 9:30 pm to 10:00 pm.
Some of the questions we want to fire at Rob might include:
- How many clients do you have, and roughly what is their turnover?
- Are they mainly Corporates or Family Farms?
- Are Corporate and Family Farm approaches very different?
- How many clients do you have, and what is their turnover?
- How did you come up with the idea for the business, and is there anyone doing something similar?
- What is the process you go through with your clients, and how do you save money on inputs?
- Is it always about saving money or are there other components to what you do?
- Do you buy the inputs for them from suppliers, or do you scrutinise the invoice post-purchase?
- Do suppliers get their back up a little, or do they appreciate honesty from such a relationship?
- You would have to follow the inputs market very closely. Where do you get most of your information from?
- Why is there no transparency in the Fertiliser market? Is it a somewhat broken system, and if so, what could we do to fix it?
- With costs rising for Farmers in areas like rates, insurance, taxes, as well as inputs, do you think the service you provide is more important now than it ever was?
- What would the number one piece of advice be for Farmers when buying inputs? And number two?
- Are you looking for new customers, or is your book full?
- Do you have any predictions for the Chemical and Fertiliser market for 2024, and what are you advising your clients to do?
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