The horse whisperer turned labour hire Young Rich Lister turned farmer on a sustainability mission has been remembered as an inspiration.
Tom Strachan packed a lot into 49 years – from a “horse whisperer”, to a labour hire entrepreneur who made the Financial Review Young Rich List, to a grazier with an inspirational passion for regenerative agriculture.on Monday alongside his 20-year-old son, Noah, and long-time pilot and friend Gary Liehm, has been remembered as a charismatic leader, able to bring people together in his mission to restore soil and make Australian agriculture sustainable.
Mr Strachan had just co-founded Australian Workforce Exchange , a labour hire firm across the agribusiness, mining, construction, health and hospitality industries that eventually grew to have 2000 workers on its books. Able to ride the mid-2000s mining boom but diversified enough to tough out the global financial crisis, AWX’s success saw Mr Strachan debut on the Financial Review Young Rich List in 2010 with an estimated wealth of $25 million.
“We’d get together every month to talk about business and life challenges, and he’d said all along he was going to get back to his country roots, buy a cattle station and start work on repairing soils,” Mr Samway said.
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