Does Every Hectare Earn Its Place? 

Understanding the Profit Contribution of Owned, Leased and Sharefarmed Land 

Presenter – Tony Hudson, Hudson facilitation

Does every hectare earn its place in your business?

Whether land is owned, leased or sharefarmed, every block consumes capital, management time and involves risk. This session will challenge growers to look beyond yield and assess how each parcel contributes to whole-farm profitability and resilience.

Exploring practical ways to evaluate the profitability, production capacity and cost structure of individual land parcels, regardless of how they are held. Tony will examine how ownership models influence returns, the role in business growth that leasing and sharefarming play, and how underperforming blocks can affect whole-farm profitability including the ability to withstand seasonal volatility.

Join us to learn how a block-by-block approach can support better land, capital and management decisions, and help answer some of the most important questions in farming: Is this land profitable? Does it fit the business? And if it isn’t performing, what should we do about it?

Tony Hudson is a farm business consultant and Founder of Hudson Facilitation. With more than 25 years’ experience in agribusiness, rural banking and farm business management, Tony works with grain growers across Australia to improve profitability, evaluate investment decisions and build resilient farming businesses. He is a former Director of Farm Management at Marcus Oldham College and a regular presenter on farm business performance and production economics.

Date: Thursday 9 July, 2026
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm (AEST)
Venue: online
Cost: Free registration

GRDC Farm Business Update National Livestreams are topic specific, interactive, interview style discussions that address key farm business management improvements common to grain growing businesses across Australia.

A recording of the livestream will be available on the GRDC website here