Farmer Training
Back Paddock Company uses its wealth of agronomic soil health and plant nutrition experience to provide informative education to farmers and graziers across Australia. In some instances these courses are approved and subsidised by the federal government.
Course: Understanding Soil Testing
A hands-on practical course that covers:
- Understanding how to use soil testing to improve soil fertility and profits.
- How to identify competent soil testing services.
- How to make sense of soil test reports
Course: Managing Soil Health
A practical course that covers what is soil health In this course you will learn to:-
- Look at and assess soil health
- Understand how management practices affect soil health
- Investigate profitable solutions to improve soil health
- Understand how to use soil testing to improve soil fertility and profits.
- Identify competent soil testing services
- Make sense of soil test reports
Course: Improving Farm Management (FarmReady 232)
This course teaches you to:
- Plan and record paddock rotations, inputs, costs and activities by paddock and by enterprise.
- Select viable management options through environmental, production and economic scenario analysis.
- Create accurate gross margin estimates and actual returns for cropping and livestock enterprises.
- Learn how to use your farm map for spatial and temporal analysis of farm management efficiency.
- Review and compare performance of paddocks from what you plan to what actually occurred
- Determine requirements and costs (per paddock and/or entire farm) for all operations and inputs including seed, chemical and fertiliser, livestock inputs, etc.
- Record and analyse all operations and inputs to improve resource management and farm profitability.
- Develop a simple diary format allowing for multiple and accurate daily recording with minimal effort.
- Generate customised reports and formats auto-calculating input and costs easily and simply presented.
The aim of this training is to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness in your decision making for the current and future year production without wasting time stuck on your computer!
Course: Improving Farm Management – Intermediate - Climate Variability : How to Make Better Decisions with Less Risk (FarmReady FRTC01005)
It is now recognised that seasonal and climate variability is having an effect on the production of crops, varietal selection, fertiliser and weed/pest control. At this course you will learn how to meet and overcome these challenges as well as to develop plans to modify practices and monitor changes in order to maintain a sustainable and profitable farming system. A brief overview of some of the topics covered in this course:-
- Preparation and maintenance of financial records.
- Preparation and practical use of budgets.
- Collection and use of production data
- Keeping and using records for a business
- Develop a map for a property sustainable production
- Analyse and interpret production data
- Create production plans for crops
- Create production plans for whole farms
- Manage agricultural crop production
- Plan and monitor production processes
- Basic mapping
The aim of this training is to further maximise the efficiency and effectiveness in your decision making for the current and future year production without wasting time stuck on your computer!