Profitable Farmer

There comes a point when the late nights, the mental load, and the constant pressure make you wonder... how much longer can we keep doing this?    Lachlan and Anna Sutton hit that point. Burnt out. Leasing land. Bucketing grain by hand while raising three young kids.    Then something shifted.    In this episode, their FOA Accountability Coach, Hayley Grosser speaks with Lachie and Anna, a couple who, in just 18 months, scaled from those long, heavy days to owning their first property, finishing over 20,000 lambs a year, launching a vertically integrated meat brand, Red Dirt Lamb, and holding a bold vision to build a $100M agribusiness that revitalises rural communities.    But this story isn’t just about scale. It’s about identity, grit, and the price of transformation.    We dive into:   how they scaled from $200K turnover to multi-million dollar growth in less than two years;  Anna’s leap from night shifts and nappies to launching a thriving farm-to-fork brand;  the cashflow squeezes, mental burnout,