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Online Farm Management Course
Study a range of topics related to farm management
Farming is just as much about management as it is about animal or crop production. Unfortunately in today’s world, the ability to produce a good animal or crop is no guarantee for success! Through this course, learn to analyse, diagnose and make decisions related to management of a farm business.
- Improve your farm management knowledge and skills.
- 100 hours self paced study.
- Study in your own time at your own pace.
Course Aims
- Develop strategic planning methods for an agricultural business.
- Learn how to prepare a Farm Business Plan.
- Develop methods for assessing the operations of a Farm Business.
- Analyse the viability of different production enterprises:
- Develop strategies for managing different farm production enterprises, covering workplace organisation and crop scheduling.
- Plan the management of human resources in a farm business covering:
- Develop methods for managing the physical resources of a farm business including managing equipment, machinery and buildings.
- Develop methods for managing the natural resources of a farm business, covering topics:
Course Outline
There are 8 lessons in this course:
- Strategic Planning
- Planning procedures
- Policy formulation approach
- Strategic management approach
- Initial strategy approach
- Farm business structures
- Management plans
- Financial terminolgy and the money market
- Finding finance; rural finance sources
- Financial terminology and record keeping
- Contract law
- Elements of a simple contract
- Offers, acceptance, consideration
- Strategic plans
- Trusts
- 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
- Oganisational structures
- Leadership
- Workplace changes
- Interviewing, recruitment and staff induction
- Giving instructions
- Managing human resources
- Work scheduling
- Occupational Health and safety
- Duty of care
- Protective equipment
- Dealing with chemicals
- Handling tools and equipment
- Safety auditing
- Physical Resources
- Managing equipment
- Machinery and building
- Managing physical resources
- Engineering efficiency
- Animal structures
- Natural Resources
- Regulations and legislation
- Land care programs
- Rehabilitation
- Trees; erosion control
- Soil degradation
- Salinity
- Soil acidification
- Compaction
- Chemical residues
- Water management
- Water quality
- Irrigation and watering systems
