Business management skills and knowledge is critical to running successful farm business. The decision making required is becoming increasingly complex as farm businesses strive to meet the key challenges of varying costs, prices and climatic conditions.

Farm Business Update Program 

The Update Program (download below) contains the following papers:

Grain market update and insights – expectations for 2013
Malcolm Bartholomaeus, Bartholomaeus Consulting 

How to make good farm expansion decisions
John Francis, Holmes Sackett 

Financing your farm – how has the business of farm financing changed over current state of play including new opportunities?
Alan Blackburn, Alan Blackburn & Associates 

Crop rotations and farming systems – what are the key issues to making profitable and sustainable crop sequencing decisions
Roger Lawes, CSIRO 

Agricultural robotics – what could future broadacre farming mechanisation look like?
Robert Fitch and Salah Sukkarieh, The University of Sydney 

Getting your act together – three tips to get an effective ‘head plan’
Dennis Hoiberg, Lessons Learnt Consulting

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