Agriculture Business Practice Group

The Agribusiness industry is vital to our country and, more importantly, California's economy. The businesses in the agriculture sector deliver a fundamental ingredient to humans: food. The product and service providers in the Agribusiness sector share many challenges and opportunities:

Water: access and sustainability
Improving financial process efficiencies to maximize profits and cash flows
Identifying and implementing technologies to improve crop yields and business operations
Relentless focus on sustainability programs: mandated and desired
Adhering to federal and state regulations
Achieving operational scale through alliances, mergers, and financing options
Embracing Artificial Intelligence in all facets of the agriculture supply chain

California’s top 10 agricultural commodities yielded the following revenues, as reported by the California Department of Food and Agriculture:

Dairy Products, Milk
Grapes
Cattle and Calves
Almonds
Lettuce
Strawberries
Pistachios
Broilers
Tomatoes
Carrots

How We Help

The 2Go Advisory Group is uniquely qualified to address the current and emerging issues in the Agribusiness industry. Our team boasts extensive experience spanning multiple decades, providing expert assistance to companies in the development of strategic, operational, compliance, technology, and financial solutions that drive success. We are in the Agribusiness epicenters in Northern California: Napa, Sonoma, the Central Valley, and the Monterey Peninsula. Our team has established relationships with attorneys, commercial and investment bankers, CPA firms, and Ag-specialty service providers; these relationships provide collaborative solutions focused on our clients' needs.

Who We Serve

Aqua-culture companies
Cannabis, Including Industrial Hemp
Milk-based product companies (dairies, cheese production, ready-to-drink consumables, and other products)
Orchards (almonds, apples, oranges, etc.)
Vineyard and Winery Operations, Including Direct-to-Consumer operations
Supply Chain companies are involved in the lifecycle of an agricultural product from its source to the ultimate consumer (aka “farm to table”).

We Advise and Assist Agricultural Companies to:

Conduct initial evaluations of overall current strategic, operational, financial, and compliance management activities to set a baseline for opportunities to improve company and departmental effectiveness and efficiency
Fill vacancies in C-Suite functional areas, including support staff, on a fractional, project, or interim basis
Facilitate business strategic planning sessions
Design, develop, and implement systems to capture functional and enterprise Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Develop financial models for evaluating capital-intensive projects, both for internal review and to present to the financial community (“bankable” models)
Perform due diligence on acquisition targets, review divestiture candidates, and assist in post-merger integration activities
Access to capital markets to achieve short-term, mid-term, and long-term business objectives
Deploy AI technologies to improve business performance
Critically assess product strategies to align with the evolving business strategic direction