Growth Farms caters for the needs of a range of rural landowners and agricultural investors. These include absentee and corporate landowners, retiring farmers and their families, and expanding farmers seeking a more flexible source of funds than traditional debt finance. We also work with young farmers who may have their options limited by other family members seeking a return from the farm.

Our clients vary significantly not only geographically, but in their nature and the services they require from Growth Farms. Some examples include:

• Corporate investors, including overseas based hedge funds seeking direct exposure to agriculture believing in the soft commodities ‘stronger for longer’ theme based on projected world consumption of food and fibre.
• Overseas and locally based investors with a positive view about the long term outlook for agriculture but without the skills or time to acquire and manage their investments themselves.
• Successful operators of traditional family farms whose children have developed ‘off farm’ careers. Most arrangements are the provision of full farm management but also include leases and joint ventures. These arrangements with Growth Farms enable such farmers to retire or make the transition to retirement while continuing to live on their farms without the risk and work required to run a farm.
• Capable farmers who may be under capitalised. In these cases, Growth Farms enters into joint ventures with farmers who contribute land and labour while Growth Farms contributes capital for livestock and cropping programs along with relevant management expertise.
• Passive ‘financial’ investors seeking exposure to the ‘high risk/high reward’ nature of agriculture, typically cropping, but with no wish to own rural land. For these clients Growth Farms structures short term syndicates (typically two to five years) which operate geographically and commodity diverse cropping programs.