Richard Davies

Name

Richard Davies

Location

North/Mid Wales

Key Specialism

  • Business Planning & Management 

Sector

  • Dairy

Why are you an effective Advisor?

  • Over 40 years’ experience in the Welsh and UK dairy industry
  • Experienced facilitator of discussion groups and open events
  • An effective communicator and team player
  • Respond quickly to work requests
  • Getting farmer buy in to plans and budgets
  • Regular monitoring/tracking of farm budgets
  • Annual benchmarking and KPI comparisons of all the businesses that I work with

Qualifications/Achievements/Experience

  • Fully bi lingual both spoken and written
  • HND in Agriculture from Welsh Agricultural College Aberystwyth
  • 40 years experience in the industry - 20 of these years as farm manager and college lecturer, followed by 20 years arranging and facilitating open events and up to 10 discussion groups across Wales
  • In the last 3 years, he has been consulting with mainly block calving herds including beef and sheep conversions to dairy, specialising in business/financial management 

Top Tip/Quote

Men with little capital but who were intelligent and hardworking and ready to modernise and change their farm, made progress, whilst those who had accustomed themselves to production costs for periods of high prices, lost money’ (Some things never change - Quote for 1879!)