IndustriesAgribusiness
Agribusiness
Financial strategy for businesses that feed the world
We help growers, processors and agri-food companies manage seasonal cash, price through volatile input costs and fund the next stage of growth.
Talk to us about pricing, seasonal cash or your next investment.
Who we work with
From farm gate to shelf
Agribusinesses run on long production cycles, weather and commodity swings, and thin margins. The financial questions differ along the value chain, so we start with where you sit in it.
Growers and producers
Seasonal cash planning, input cost and yield scenarios, and the case for new acreage, equipment or controlled-environment facilities.
Processors and food companies
Product and channel profitability, pricing against input costs, working capital and capacity investment.
Investors and lenders
An independent view of an operation’s economics, valuation ahead of a financing or acquisition, and diligence on growth plans.
Decisions we support
The decisions agribusiness teams bring to us
Each one links to the practice that handles it, so you can go from the question in front of you to how we answer it.
Pricing through volatile input costs
Understanding true unit costs across inputs, labour and freight, and setting prices and contracts that protect margin.
Planning cash through the season
Forecasts that follow the production cycle, so financing is lined up before the cash gap arrives.
Funding expansion or new facilities
The investment case, capital structure and investor materials behind new capacity, acreage or a controlled-environment build.
Choosing where to invest next
Comparing projects on return, risk and payback, so capital goes where it earns the most.
Valuing the business or a stake
Valuations for financings, partner changes, succession and transactions.
Buying, selling or merging an operation
Screening targets, testing price against the numbers, and supporting diligence and negotiation through to close.
Our perspective
In agribusiness the season sets the cash cycle, so financing has to be lined up before the gap arrives.
We build forecasts around the production cycle and price through input cost swings, so margin and cash hold up in a difficult year as well as a good one.
Insights
Related insights
Selected work
See how our engagements come together
From pricing and cash planning to capital raises and transactions, our selected work shows the range of companies we serve and the decisions we help them make.
The firm
An independent firm, built around the work
Engagements are principal-led and staffed to the work, drawing on our network of legal, tax and audit partners where a scope requires it.
Many of our relationships continue well beyond the first mandate, as fractional controller or CFO, as research partner, or as adviser on the next raise or transaction.
Principal-ledSenior attention from scoping through delivery.
Hands-onInvolved from the first model through to execution.
For the long termOngoing roles as controller, CFO and research partner.
Questions
Questions agribusiness teams ask us
Do you work with controlled-environment and vertical farming businesses?
Yes. Our Vertical Farming Playbook covers the Canadian and US market, and we model the economics of controlled-environment projects for operators and investors.
How do you handle seasonality in forecasts?
We build forecasts around your production and sales cycle rather than calendar averages, so cash needs, borrowing and covenant headroom are visible months ahead.
Do you only work with companies in British Columbia?
No. We are based in Vancouver and work with companies across Canada and internationally.
What does an engagement cost?
It depends on the scope. After a first conversation we send a written proposal with deliverables, timing and fees, so you know the cost before any work begins.
Capabilities
Related capabilities
Pricing and costing
Fractional CFO
Capital raising
Capital allocation
Business valuation
Mergers and acquisitionsAlso for agribusinesses: Vertical Farming Playbook
