“I also set up a consulting business with their support that focused initially on management processes and banks and financial literacy and later evolved over the next 40-some years into every facet of farm management, from financial literacy to succession planning.”

“I bought 50% of a banking recruitment business when banking recruitment, um, became X growth. And we turn that into a training business. And then we eventually turn that into a consultancy business, which is now, um, being very successful.”

“We started Lodestone and we had a vision for five or six farms to see how we go. Now it's going to go to 20-odd farms or so and we'll keep on growing.”

“A property manager called, offered to take over, and he switched to third-party management within about two months.”

“We train them with our models… over that 30, 60, 90 days… we take our deep bench of managers, give them the opportunity to visit a new site and help train a new manager, and often compensate them to do that.”