Livestock Advisor Essentials – Building blocks of business

Livestock Advisor Essentials (LAE) is a professional development program designed for early career professionals involved in the livestock industry or advisors wishing to build their skills and expand their industry knowledge and networks.

This is an unbeatable opportunity to:

• Learn the fundamentals of livestock businesses.
• Develop knowledge, skills and confidence.
• Connect with other livestock advisors.

The program will include three face-to-face workshops covering the livestock industry building-blocks of feedbase, business, reproduction and genetics, value chain and people and extension.

Building blocks of business

Delivered by John Francis (Agrista), this session will use case studies and interactive discussions to introduce the theory associated with financial literacy, critical thinking and cost benefit analysis. The learning material will provide the basis for participants to become familiar with existing MLA tools, and how to introduce these tools to their clients. It will provide the basis for participants to confidently use sound business principles in advising their clients.

The objectives of this session are to improve participants confidence and skills in:

• financial literacy
• critical thinking
• ability to do simple cost-benefit analysis to support decision making