“When you lease farms, first you run out of feed, then you run out of water.”Lucinda—co-founder/chair of Farmers for Climate Action (~8,500 members) and multi-farm beef producer—lays out why they moved from leasing to owning, treating finance as an input to build resilience. We cover:• Scale & focus: ~5,000 ha, 2,300 cows, genetics-led business (bulls, heifers), data-heavy operations.• Drought reality: fires, “green drought,” and designing for choice—feed, water, timing—rather than reaction.• Biosecurity discipline: closed herd (semen/embryos in), double fencing, visitor controls.• Ferals & landscape risk: deer, pigs, dogs; practical constraints in control.• Natural capital & habitat: wetlands, glider boxes, 4,000 new trees, dung beetles; soil OM tracking; native and drought-tolerant deciduous mixes.• Community & R&D: FCA, Drought Hub advisory, Holbrook Landcare; dry-sowing insights; why good advisors beat “decision amnesia.”contact Lucinda at https://www.rennylea.com.au/Listen to all platforms via my master link: https://linktr.ee/sam.jewelHashtags#WomenInAg #BeefGenetics #Cattle #FarmBusiness #DroughtPlanning #GreenDrought #Biosecurity #Ferals #NaturalCapital #SoilHealth #TreePlanting #Wetlands #DungBeetles #HolbrookLandcare #FCA #RuralLeadership #SupplyRisk #FinanceAsAnInput #ResilientFarming #Australia #MurrayValley #BillabongCreek #Grazing #AgPolicy #RDE