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Business EDGE Young Guns workshop | Tamworth, NSW

07 Apr 2020 08:30AM - 09 Apr 2020 04:00PM

Grain-fed Cattle Grain-fed Cattle
Grass-fed Cattle Grass-fed Cattle
Sheep Sheep
Goat Goat

Location: Online

Three online half-day sessions.

Cost: $1,500 plus GST / first person from one business or $1,250 plus GST / second person from one business. All prices exclude GST and are fully tax deductible. The workshop includes an additional module on long-term wealth creation and a Young Gun keynote speaker. Cost includes full set of course notes and a suite of decision making tools to use at home.

Business EDGE Young Guns workshops are for up and coming livestock producers who are ready to build their skills and confidence to manage a modern agricultural business.

What you’ll learn:

  • the fundamentals of long-term wealth creation and equity building
  • understand where your business is performing well and where it can be improved
  • a way to prioritise on-farm investment decisions
  • understand how enterprise choice and performance affects business performance
  • understand what is required for business entry and succession.

Why attend:

  • gain the skills and confidence to carry on the family business, start your own or step up in your role
  • learn from presenters who understand grazing businesses
  • meet other producers who are facing similar challenges as you
  • receive a full set of course notes and a suite of decision support tools to use at home
  • money back guarantee if you’re not 100% satisfied the workshop has improved your business skills.

The benefits of online delivery:

  • The ability to interact and engage with other participants and with a highly experienced deliverer
  • Improved efficiency of time due to less travelling time
  • The flexibility of delivery to improve learning (3 half-day sessions rather than 2 very long days)
  • The ability to complete a half-day of work after each session.

This workshop includes participant interaction, regular breaks, group discussion and presentations.  We are currently experiencing changing times. The world is not going to stop and we are keen to deliver solutions that will allow us to progress in these challenging times. We hope you will embrace this as a new opportunity and we look forward to your participation.

Previous experience in this delivery environment

John Francis, consultant and accredited deliverer of the MLA Business Edge has delivered a range of technical information sessions using the online conferencing platforms including webinars on feed budgeting, trading cattle, enterprise performance, business performance and key performance indicators and the performance of rangeland goats.

In addition to these sessions the deliverer John Francis has offered to be available on-line for questions for several hours after the course.

Presenter: John Francis, Holmes Sackett

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