Dairy Farm Business Analysis is a seven-session program which assists farmers and their advisers to better understand and analyse farm business performance.

It uses DairyBase and covers the importance of getting annual farm physical and financial numbers right, how to interpret farm performance and how to understand cash, profit and wealth for a dairy farm business using DairyBase reports.

This course is recommended for all dairy farmers and their advisers.

• enhance your awareness and understanding of key principles and concepts of farm business management

• whole farm approach

• matching principles

• average vs marginal

• enhance your awareness and understanding of farm physical and financial terminology and calculations i.e. profit, cash, wealth

• enhance your awareness and understanding of the importance of data accuracy

• enhance your awareness and understanding of farm business financial tools and budgets

• enhance your awareness and understanding of benefits of completing an annual farm performance analysis such as DairyBase

• enhance your understanding of the key elements of farm business performance

• develop knowledge and skills required to calculate farm business data, including in DairyBase 

• develop knowledge and skills required to analyse and interpret farm business data, including DairyBase reports

• develop an understanding of dairy business performance (their own business for participants who have entered their data into DairyBase).