00:00Hi, my name is Grant Pontifex. I'm from Paskerville in South Australia and I've been nominated for the Sustainability Award
00:08in the Australian Agricultural Awards.
00:10We've got a pretty sustainable business I feel. I'm a fifth generation farmer, been here since 1877.
00:17Pretty diverse business that ranges from land on York Peninsula to land down on Kangaroo Island and then land up
00:24in far north Queensland where we grow sugarcane in air.
00:28It's a pretty sustainable model for negating risk and having different commodities and different risk profile to the whole business,
00:37making it sustainable year on year.
00:38It gives us that business robustness that three out of the four at any one time are going to be
00:44profitable or not impacted by fertiliser shortage or a downturn in grain markets or a downturn in sugar or drought
00:51or too wet.
00:52There's all those things that the farms, because of their geographical differences, mean that we're a lot more sustainable, I
00:59guess, financially.
01:00It gives all those benefits of being able to continue to grow a business even when things aren't travelling so
01:06well in one area or another.
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