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Explore for Managers
Explore for Managers
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People
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2IC Program
Supports employees, currently in a 2IC / Managers position or looking to move into a 2IC/Managers position, understand the requirements of this role within a dairy farm business.
Mode: In-person workshop
Duration: 1 day
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Coaching
Supports farmer with getting new employees ‘up and going’.
Mode: Online learning
Duration: Self-paced
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Employment Basics
Supports farmers to apply industrial relations and HR requirements when employing people. Participants will learn about attraction, recruitment, onboarding, retention, termination and payroll/leave requirements across employment options.
Mode: Online workshops and learning
Duration: 16 hours
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Employment Basics Express
Supports farmers to gain the confidence and knowledge needed to implement sound employment practices, ensuring that your dairy farm meets essential employment compliance obligations and fosters a positive and safe work environment.
Mode: Online workshops and learning
Duration: 3 weeks
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Farming With My Team
Supports farmers to strengthen leadership skills. Participants will explore leadership basics, leading self and others, team values, communication, coaching/mentoring and applying leadership skills to improve culture and business outcomes.
Mode: Online workshops and learning
Duration: 12 hours
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Animals
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First 100 days
Supports farmers to make informed decisions in the first 100 days post-calving to optimise early lactation outcomes. Participants will learn nutrition, physiological and management strategies to improve production, health, reproduction and profit.
Mode: In-person workshop and online learning
Duration: 1 day
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Rearing Healthy Calves In Practice
Supports farm decision makers and senior employees to improve calf rearing, welfare, biosecurity and antimicrobial stewardship. Participants will apply learnings from the fundamentals workshop via peer learning and practical planning.
Mode: In-person workshop and online learning
Duration: 2 days
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Farm Business
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Business Governance & Investment
Supports farmers to focus on strategic thinking with a growing farm business. Participants will learn to navigate business transitions, understand different structures, apply governance principles, simplify risk management and reduce stress from change.
Mode: In-person workshops
Duration: 2 days
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Farm Business Analysis
Supports farmers and service providers to analyse and benchmark farm business performance. Participants will learn about financial/physical data, interpreting performance and understanding cash, profit and wealth.
Mode: Online workshops
Duration: 7 sessions
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Farm Business Fundamentals
Supports farmers to improve farm financial management. Participants will gain knowledge and skills on budgeting, compliance and financial systems, and access the Standard Chart of Accounts and Dairy Cash Budgeting tool.
Mode: In-person or online workshops
Duration: 8 sessions
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Farm Decision Making
Supports farmers with decision making techniques to help make the best decisions for a farm business.
Mode: Online workshop
Duration: 2.5 hours
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Managing People
Supports farmers to improve people management and leadership skills and strategies. Participants will explore motivation, conflict resolution, employee development and setting team and individual goals to support farm business success.
Mode: In-person workshop and online learning
Duration: 16 hours
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Our Farm, Our Plan
Supports farmers to improve business planning and better manage risk. Participants will develop long-term goals, identify and prioritise actions, and manage uncertainty and risk. Includes one-to-one support over 24 months.
Mode: One-to-one and online learning
Duration: 24 months
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Climate & Environment
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Farm Environmental Tracker
Supports farmers to benchmark sustainability performance and identify opportunities to improve environmental stewardship and profitability. Participants will use an online tool, attend a two-day workshop and visit a farm showcasing sustainable practices.
Mode: In-person workshop and online learning
Duration: 2 days
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Understanding Farm Carbon
Supports farmers and service providers to better understand and manage farm carbon. Participants will learn about farm greenhouse gas emissions, industry needs, calculating carbon footprint and practical ways to profitably reduce emissions.
Mode: In-person workshop and online learning
Duration: 4 hours
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Climate Change & Dairy
Supports farmers with understanding the climate change landscape and what it means for dairy.
Mode: In-person workshop and online learning
Duration: 4 hours
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Dairy Farming & The Environment
Introduces farmers to the unique water movement and availability in Australia, major issues of environmental biodiversity, and implications of current and past farming practices on water sustainability and environment.
Mode: Online learning
Duration: 2 hours
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Feeding & Farm Systems
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Nutrition Fundamentals
Supports farmers and employees with the basics of ruminant nutrition. Participants will learn via 2–3 classroom days and an optional on-farm session about feed quality, how cows digest feed nutrients, and comparing and budgeting feed costs.
Mode: In-person workshops and online learning
Duration: 2-3 days
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Advanced Nutrition in Action
Supports farmers and service providers to improve herd nutrition practices. Participants will gain technical knowledge, strategic planning and problem-solving skills, and access tools to implement nutrition management strategies.
Mode: In-person workshops and online learning
Duration: 8 days
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Feeding Pastures for Profit
Supports farmers to achieve a profitable balance between homegrown feed and supplement use. Participants will learn via 2 classroom days and 5 on-farm sessions, focusing on ryegrass and adapted for regions with other common grazed forages.
Mode: In-person workshops
Duration: 12 months
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Top Fodder
Supports farmers and service providers to improve silage-making (focus on pasture/maize). Participants will learn the science/economics of crop selection, silage additives, feed testing, fitting silage and reducing losses during the process.
Mode: In-person workshops and online learning
Duration: 2 days
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Soils & Water
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Irrigation Management
Supports farm employees to optimise irrigation practices for increased crop/pasture productivity. Participants will learn about soil moisture management, water scheduling, weather analysis, system troubleshooting and strategic irrigation practices.
Mode: Online learning
Duration: Self-paced
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