About Adrian Hardie
More Than A Finance Broker. A Specialist.
The broker who grows too.
Specialist horticulture finance, backed by a Masters in Agribusiness and a working avocado orchard in Sunraysia.
Reading the numbers that drive your operation.
Industry Knowledge & Analytics
Agri finance is driven by variables that general lenders rarely factor in: commodity prices, pack rates, yield curves, input cost cycles and the relationship between seasonal conditions and cash flow timing. Understanding these is not just useful, it is essential to structuring finance that actually works for an agricultural operation.
This Agri Broker reads the same industry reports, market outlooks and regional data that producers use to plan their seasons, and knows how to translate that into a finance narrative lenders can follow and act on. The goal is not just to get a deal approved, but to get it structured correctly so it performs over the full term.
Whether it is understanding why avocado establishment cash flows look the way they do, how almond orchard returns scale with tree age, or how a wet season affects dryland cropping margins, this Agri Broker brings that contextual knowledge into every lender conversation.
The asset class most lenders don’t fully understand.
Water Markets
Water entitlements are among the most complex assets in Australian agriculture, and among the least understood by mainstream lenders. They are not property. They are not equipment. They are a separate asset class with their own market, their own risk profile and their own relationship to the productive capacity of the land they serve.
This Agri Broker understands water markets at a level that most finance professionals never reach. Permanent entitlements, temporary allocations, delivery risk, reliability zones, carryover provisions, and critically, how each of these factors affects both the value of the water asset and the lender’s appetite to fund against it.
Structuring finance that involves water correctly means presenting it to the right lenders in a way they can assess with confidence. That is a skill that comes from deep exposure to water markets, not something learned from a textbook.
Knowing what shapes your numbers, and how to explain it.
Economic & Weather Intelligence
Agricultural finance does not exist in isolation from the broader economy. Global competition, currency movements, commodity price cycles, climate variability and policy changes all affect the risk profile of an agricultural operation, and therefore the way its finance should be structured and presented to a lender.
This Agri Broker tracks these macro-level drivers and understands how they flow through to farm-level cash flow and borrowing capacity. When a credit assessor asks why revenue projections look the way they do, or why costs have increased in a particular season, this Agri Broker has a grounded, evidence-based answer.
That context is particularly important in horticulture, where establishment timelines, water costs, export exposure and seasonal labour can all shift the numbers in ways that require explanation, not apology.
On your side, from first conversation to settled finance.
Your Advocate
Finance broking is sometimes described as matching borrowers to lenders. This Agri Broker sees it differently. The job is to represent your operation to the financial system in a way that gets you the right outcome for your stage of business: the right structure, the right lender, the right terms.
That means taking the time to understand your operation before approaching any lender. It means structuring your deal around your crop cycle, your cash flow timing and your long-term plans. And it means staying in your corner through the assessment process, not just at the point of application.
One broker, every deal. No starting from scratch each time. When your circumstances change, and in agriculture they will, this Agri Broker already knows your operation and can move quickly.
Credentials
The background behind the expertise.
Full professional background at hardiefinancegroup.com.au
Talk to a broker who knows your industry.
Complimentary initial conversation. Most questions answered in one call.