Michael Bagshaw

Agribusiness Finance Specialist. Editorial contributor - Stock Journal. Qualifications in accounting. Currently studying law. Advisory Board experience.

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I'm grateful that I'm able to do book reviews in my Stock Journal columns. Looking forward to reading these two.

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This week's Stock Journal article. Obtaining professional advice in relation to a farming business is vital.

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This week's Stock Journal article. Looking after both your physical and mental health is so important.

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This week's Stock Journal article. Education comes in many forms.

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This week's Stock Journal article. Gratitude is a superpower. There is always something to be grateful for.

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This week's Farmers Club article. Be curious not judgemental.

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The Farmers Club Newsletter - What our 4 x new contributors spoke about last week.

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4 new contributors - We are about to release our 4th writing contributor to The Farmers Club newsletter. This week, we had Michael Bagshaw on Monday, who wrote about the ramifications of the instant asset write-off scheme. He said this: "If you've fully depreciated an asset, and you trade this in, the value of that trade becomes assessable income. The caveat, of course, is that it all depends……"

We welcomed Caleb Schwartz on Tuesday, who did his first column this week about his move to Alice Springs for work. Caleb is 22 and will give us a young person's perspective, which we are looking forward to. He said this in his column: "Seeing Agriculture here in Central Australia has certainly challenged some of my paradigms from my upbringing and studies".

Bec Lindert is on her second article and is our star on Thursdays. Bec spoke about traceability and said this: "Growers standing in paddocks wearing Australian Cotton. Great story, fantastic marketing campaign. But no real commercial value back to the grower, just intrinsic and feel-good value. Traceability solved a brand problem for the likes of Nike".

Vic Hoffmann Dohle is the 4th one to come on board. Vic has deep roots to the Land and Farming life, and she writes with great passion. Like here: "Reflecting on the recent Vodafone ad, depicting regional Australia where 'nothing's out here', which at first I dismissed as a bit irritating and mildly offensive, but not an unexpected ignorance. It was peculiar and brazen to highlight their own service supply shortcomings, justifying it by implying nothing of importance exists out here anyway. A weird marketing strategy".

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This week's Stock Journal article. I recently visited the Adelaide Produce Market. An eye opener. Highly recommend a visit.

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The Farmers Club Newsletter - 3 new writing contributors

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3 new contributors - I put this statement up last week, but it's worth repeating: "Agriculture doesn't need another journalist giving you one angle. It needs people willing to challenge the assumptions everyone else accepts, back their thinking, and put a different spin on the story being told. That's what I'm here to do". This is why we have 3 new contributors. Michael Bagshaw, Bec Lindhert, and well reveal our 3rd one next week. They all write beautifully, and their articles will be chock-full of ideas and takeaways from their own experiences and beliefs. One wrote the statement above. The Ag media world is changing, and here's your chance to be a part of it.

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The Farmers Club stories - As of next week, we will go from 18 Ag stories written by one person to 22 Ag stories written by 5 people

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Our latest writings:

The forecast is dry, but we don't Farm to the forecast. Retaining moisture has become the Croppers 1-Wood. This is the year to play by the moisture rules.

Jeff, in his podcast, described what traits people have who are ahead of this mindset thing. He said this: "The people who don't want the power, the people who don't want the control, they all have it"

US Ag financial commentator Grant Wiese said this: "A profit is no longer a profit if you use that profit to buy Equipment that doesn't generate any new income." How can we justify a new Header?

We reviewed the Jeff McDonald podcast.

Is the Workshop division of the Machinery Dealership better off being outsourced to an independent?

Allbirds, the Wool sneaker company that took the world by storm a few years back, has done the backflips or all backflips. It has sold off the shoe division and turned itself into an AI company. Go figure.

We introduced one of our new writers, Bec Lindert. What a start for Bec.

We gave some big praise for the Cotton Conference, which is coming up in August. We attended the bi-annual event in 2024 and outlined why it's a must-attend.

Have a great Saturday, and subscribe to listen to the excellent Jeff McDonald podcast.

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Pleased to be one of three contributors to the Farmers Club Newsletter.

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Last week's Stock Journal article. Never waste a good crisis seems apt currently. All good agribusinesses will be looking at their business model closely.

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Getting to know the contributors - Michael Bagshaw

Home is a place called Malinong, SA. This is one of these quintessential small Farming communities with a hall and tennis courts, and that's it. I now live in the Adelaide Hills. Went to school at Coomandook, left school at 16 to go home on the family Farm. It started off as a traditional mixed Farming operation and later morphed into a 100% Cropping operation. Was a cocky's son Shearer for about 15 years and spent 2-3 months every year Shearing. Probably have shorn over 100,000 sheep (no one (including me) would describe me as a gun). Although I do have a lot of great memories from these times. It certainly teaches you discipline; if you don't keep walking back into the catching pen, you don't get paid! Stayed on the Farm until the age of 34 and then studied accounting and worked for a large accounting firm in Adelaide for two years. I often get asked why I left the Farm, as it was totally voluntary.....more @MichaelBagshaw

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This week's Stock Journal article. We all need other people in our lives. Choose carefully who these people are.

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This week's Stock Journal article. There are many aspects of agriculture that can't be controlled. It pays to have a laser-like focus on the things that can be.

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This week's Stock Journal article. Finding a balance between on-farm business and off-farm interests is important.

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This week's Stock Journal article. Road trips are fun, as is spending time with your mates.

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Back in Mount Barker working on my next Stock Journal article. Which is a summary of my road trip to NSW last week with my best mates from primary school. We did a 2,300 km farm tour, but as importantly, had a lot of fun 😊

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This week's Stock Journal article. Education takes many forms and is easy to access. I know many farmers that I would term as highly educated.

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Changed the oil in my Jeep this week in my Dad's shed at Meningie in readiness for a big road trip next week.

As I put it up on the hoist and dropped the oil a wave of nostalgia from being on the farm was evident, as Dad still has the farm worship tools. Memories