The Agribusiness industry is vital to our country and, more importantly, California's economies. 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 

In 2022, California’s top 10 agricultural commodities yielded the following revenues, as reported by the California Department of Food and Agriculture: 

  • Dairy Products, Milk — $10.40 billion 
  • Grapes — $5.54 billion 
  • Cattle and Calves — $3.63 billion 
  • Almonds — $3.52 billion 
  • Lettuce — $3.15 billion 
  • Strawberries — $2.68 billion 
  • Pistachios — $1.86 billion 
  • Broilers — $1.59 billion 
  • Tomatoes — $1.46 billion 
  • Carrots — $1.11 billion  

The 2Go Advisory Group is uniquely qualified to address the current and emerging issues in the Agribusiness industry. Our team has many decades of experience and is capable of assisting companies in successfully developing strategic, operational, compliance, technology and financial solutions. We are located in the Agribusiness epicenters in Northern California: Napa, Sonoma, Central Valley and the Monterey Peninsula. Our team has established relationships with attorneys, commercial and investment bankers, CPA firms and specialty service providers; these relationships provide collaborative solutions focused on our clients. 

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Who We Serve

  • 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
  • Cannabis, Including Industrial Hemp
  • Supply Chain companies in the lifecycle of an agricultural product from its source to the ultimate consumer

We Advise and Assist Agricultural Companies to:

  • Fill vacancies in C-Suite functional areas, including support staff, on a fractional, project or interim basis. 
  • Facilitating business strategic planning sessions  
  • Design, develop and implement systems to capture Key Performance Indicators 
  • Conduct initial evaluations of overall current financial management to set a baseline for opportunities to improve company and departmental effectiveness and efficiency 
  • Develop financial models for evaluating capital intensive projects, both for internal review and to present to the financial community (“bankable” models) 
  • Financial system process improvements to enable existing staff to spend more time assisting forward-looking decision making and less time on prior period reporting 
  • Create rolling cash forecasts and cash management systems 
  • Develop annual budgets and long-term strategic plans 
  • Perform due diligence on acquisition targets, review divestiture candidates and assist in post-merger integration activities 

Strategic Partners