Farm Management 100 Hours Certificate Course

There are 8 lessons:

1. Strategic Planning

• Planning procedures
• The policy formulation approach
• Strategic management approach
• Initial strategy approach
• Farm business structures
• Management plans
• Financial terminology and the money market
• Finding finance
• Rural finance sources
• Financial terminology and record keeping
• Contract law; Elements of a simple contract; Offers; Acceptance; Consideration
• Strategic plans
• Trusts

2. Business Plans

• Farm Planning
• Quality management systems
• Whole farm planning
• Preparing a business plan
• Integrated production plans

3. Business Assessment

• Business goals; factors involved in business assessment
• Considering factors affecting your business
• Drawing conclusions

4. Viability Analysis

• Assessing profit
• Risk analysis and managing risk
• Standards
• Cost efficiency
• Cost of production
• Quality and quantity standards
• Financial records
• The bookkeeping process
• End of period accounting
• Cash flow
• Example of budget
• Sensitivity analysis

5. Management Strategies

• Organising the workplace
• Scheduling
• Production systems
• System variables
• Animal production systems
• Lot feeding
• Cropping systems
• Polyculture
• Office systems
• Computers
• Business diversification
• Value adding

6. Human Resources

• Supervision
• Organisational structures
• Leadership
• Workplace changes
• Interviewing
• Recruitment and staff induction
• Giving instructions
• Managing human resources
• Work scheduling
• Occupational Health and safety
• Duty of care
• Protective equipment
• Dealing with chemicals
• Handling tools and equipment
• Safety auditing

7. Physical Resources

• Managing equipment, machinery and buildings
• Managing physical resources
• Engineering efficiency
• Animal structures

8. Natural Resources

• Regulations and legislation
• Land Care programs
• Rehabilitation
• Trees
• Erosion control
• Soil degradation
• Salinity
• Soil acidification
• Compaction
• Chemical Residues
• Water management
• Water quality
• Irrigation and watering systems

Your learning experience with ADL will not only depend on the quality of the course, but also the quality of the person teaching it. This course is taught by Aleksandr Klyashitsky and Juliette Harris. Your course fee includes unlimited tutorial support throughout from one of these excellent professionals. Here are their credentials:

Aleksandr Klyashitsky
BSc Engineering Physics (Honours, University of Alberta, Canada)

Aleksandr focused on lasers, optics and software research during and after his degree. He went on to work in a Canadian laser gas detection company where he published some of his research and focused on optimizing the optics and software of the next generation product. After working in this field for a few years, Aleksandr started tutoring engineering, physics, chemistry and maths to students in and just before University, with which he now has a few years experience. Aleksandr is very interested in sustainable technologies which has shifted his focus to researching and learning modern and traditional farming and natural building methods around Europe.

Juliette Harris
BSc Hons Biology (University of Sussex)

Juliette has over 10 years experience in teaching and private tutoring. As an undergraduate, she contributed to published research on the behaviour of an endangered bat species, though her main areas of interest and pecialisation are genetics and cellular biology. After 7 months in the rainforests & reefs of Central America, Juliette began her teaching career at prestigious private school, Brighton College. She soon returned to Central America, heading up a field-trip for A-level students. She has been private tutor & exam coach to a range of students with very diverse backgrounds, aptitudes and expectations.More recently, Juliette has enjoyed working with adults with learning difficulties and enormous barriers to education. Juliette currently splits her time between England and Bulgaria, where she works as a teacher and missionary.

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