Farm services for Australian livestock businesses
Clunes Rural is the home of Farm CFO, and of the farm services that follow it. Run by Nick Clunes, a former banker who has worked on farms and in commercial finance.
Farm CFO by Clunes Rural
A part-time CFO for piggeries, cattle and sheep businesses across Australia. Farm CFO prepares budgets, monthly cashflow forecasts and bank review packs, finds the costs leaking out of the business, and helps farmers walk into the bank with numbers a credit team can read.
For established farms, farms adding a new enterprise, and people getting into farming who need to know their numbers first. Fixed fees, published on the site.
Go to farmcfo.com.au- Farm Health Check$850 + GST
- Bank Review Pack$1,850 + GST
- Farm Optimiser$3,100 + GST
- Season Partner$3,900 a year + GST
- Farm CFO retainer$800 a month + GST
More farm services will sit here as they open.
Finance beyond the farm
Nick also runs two finance businesses. Farm CFO doesn't arrange loans itself, so these are where property, business and equipment finance are handled.
Nick Clunes
Nick started as a banker and has spent more than eight years in commercial finance. He knows what a credit team needs to see, and he has worked on farms himself, so the numbers he builds match how a livestock business actually runs.
- Started as a personal and business banker at Greater Bank
- Commercial and equipment finance since 2018
- Diploma of Finance and Mortgage Broking Management, Kaplan Professional
- Accredited commercial broker (CAFBA) and accredited finance broker (MFAA)
- Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD)
- University study in accounting, business economics and agricultural economics at Charles Sturt University
- State finalist, Commercial and Equipment Finance Broker, MFAA Excellence Awards 2025
- Four years as a farm hand, including preparing stud pigs for show
- Announcer for the pig section and competitions at the Sydney Royal Easter Show for the past five years