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Asset-backed
Secured by productive agricultural assets — land access, agistment agreements and forward contracts. No unsecured or speculative exposure.
Home Where the returns come from
Where the returns come from
A livestock strategy built on three things: biological growth, operational control, and disciplined risk management.
The opportunity
A structural gap, answered with real assets
Ferguson Hyams identified a shortage of genuine income alternatives backed by real, productive assets. A lamb bought at 35 kg and turned off at 60 kg roughly 100 days later has created value through weight gain alone.
Multiply that across a managed flock, on secured and irrigated grazing country, with sale pricing known before purchase and you have a cash-generative cycle that repeats through the seasons.
How it works
The exit is priced before we buy
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Price
Sale price per kilogram is transparent and known before any stock is purchased.
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Acquire
Young livestock are purchased against known pricing as tangible, insured assets.
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Background
Approximately 100 days of managed weight gain on pasture, monitored daily.
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Sell
Livestock are turned off to the processor at pricing known at purchase.
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Reinvest
Capital recycles into the next seasonal program.
Operational control
What we control
- Grazing, feeding and movement of stock; managed in-house, not outsourced to third-party operators
- Procurement, freight and induction, directly managed
- Cropping and backgrounding programs (for example oats) operated to cut feed costs and improve forage
- Sale pathways; grid pricing per kilogram transparent and known before stock is purchased
Discipline
Six screens before capital is deployed
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Downside protection
Stocking decisions tied to pasture condition, rainfall profiles and feed-cost offsets.
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Predictable liquidity
Defined biological timelines with cash flows linked to turnoff events, with no dependency on market timing.
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Performance consistency
Repeatable growth metrics and trackable cost per head and per kilogram.
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Operational control
We only run programs where we control the operation.
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Low correlation
Returns driven by irrigation, pasture, conversion efficiency and export demand. Historically uncorrelated with listed markets.
See the strategy in detail
The Strategy Brief covers the investment process, target returns and their basis, key risks, fees and how to invest — via HUB24, Swissquote, Utmost and Clearstream, or directly. For wholesale investors only.
Request the Strategy Brief (opens in a new tab)Links to invest.fergusonhyams.com.au