Course Details
Course Outline
10 days course
Strategic Planning
- Planning procedures; the policy formulation approach,
- Strategic management approach, initial strategy approach;
- Farm business structures;
- Management plans; financial terminology and the money market;
- Finding finance;
- Rural finance sources;
- Financial terminology and record keeping;
Business Plans
- Farm Planning;
- Quality management systems;
- Whole farm planning; Preparing a business plan;
- Integrated production plans.
Business Assessment
- Business goals;
- Factors involved in business assessment;
- Considering factors affecting your business;
- Drawing conclusions.
Viability Analysis
- Assessing profit;
- Risk analysis and managing risk;
- Standards; Cost efficiency;
- Cost of production;
- Quality and quantity standards;
- Financial records;
- The bookkeeping process;
- End of period accounting;
- Cash flow; Example of budget;
- Sensitivity analysis.
Management Strategies
- Organising the workplace;
- Scheduling;
- Production systems; system variables;
- Animal production systems;
- Lot feeding;
- Cropping systems;
- Polyculture;
- Office systems; Computers;
- Business diversification; Value adding.
Human Resources
- Supervision;
- Organisational structures;
- Leadership; Workplace changes;
- Interviewing, recruitment and staff induction;
- Giving instructions; managing human resources;
- Work scheduling;
Health and safety
- Occupational Health and safety;
- Duty of care;
- Protective equipment;
- Dealing with chemicals;
- Handling tools and equipment;
- Safety auditing.
Physical Resources
- Managing equipment, machinery and buildings;
- Managing physical resources;
- Engineering efficiency;
- Animal structures.
Natural Resources
- Land Care programs;
- Rehabilitation;
- Trees; Erosion control;
- Soil degradation; Salinity;
- Soil acidification: Compaction;
- Chemical Residues;
- Water management;
- Water quality;
- Irrigation and watering systems.
Regulations and legislation
- The Agriculture Regulations
- The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink Regulations
- The Specific Food Hygiene Regulations
- Contract law; Elements of a simple contract
