Meet Our Team

CHARLES DREW

BAgrSc, MSc (AgEc), DipAgExt, CPAg, FAIAST

Principal Agribusiness Consultant

charles@srhs.com.au

Charles has a distinguished background as an agricultural and farm management economist, strategic planner and adviser to agribusiness, industry and government.  He joined Scholefield Robinson Horticultural Services Pty Ltd in 2001 after a successful consulting career with AACM/Dames and Moore/URS.  He also has widespread experience and recognised skills as an expert witness and graded arbitrator, and as an independent assessor and evaluator of agribusiness and natural resource management programs and projects.

• Agribusiness economics.
• Investment analysis and diagnostic review.
• Economic loss assessment.
• Agricultural extension.
• Program and project evaluation.
• Alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
  

• Fellow (and past National President), Australian Institute of Agric. Science and Technology; Certified Practising Agriculturalist.
• Member, Graded Arbitrator and Accredited Mediator, Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia.
• Member, Australasian Association of Agricultural Consultants.

• Vanuatu – Feasibility study for Kava production and processing.
• Bushfire farm loss assessment and compensation negotiations.
• Economic loss assessments (>175) as an expert witness including fire in abattoirs, effects of farmer injuries or death, effects of malfunctioning machinery and agricultural chemicals, family conflicts etc.
• ADR: expert determinations - grape supply contracts; mediations - farmers and financiers, intergenerational farm transfer, chicken meat growers and processors.
• Feasibility studies, diagnostic reviews and development of strategic plans for a range ($1m to $30m) of agribusiness enterprises, for national industry bodies, and for industry extension services.
• Business plans for national nuclear collection of grape vines, regional beef cattle marketing schemes, regional grain processing and marketing.
• Review and evaluation of investment programs in RD&E and on ground implementation for NLP and NHT, for Catchment Boards, Regional conservation programs and for specific RD&E programs.