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!)