Regenerative Farm Business Management Workshops
Regenerative Farm Business Management; Insights and Skills to make the Switch
Northland, November 2022, date TBA
What are the principles and practices of regenerative fam management? How do you look for and utilise services nature provides for free to increase property resilience to climatic events and stablising revenues and profits? How can you coincide this with better family communciation and accountability? How do farmers become proactive in addressing causes of problems rather than treating symptoms resulting in greater control of circumstances.
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Regenerative Farm Business Management using Allan Savory's WHolistic Management provides insights and ideas that are practical and profitable. Drawing from farming systems around the world and experiences of New Zealand farmers, the information presented brings new insights in to what works and why, not just actions to tick a box. It can be used with any farm business management or design system to assist with improvements.
To learn more click on contact John or call 027 6737 885
The focus is on developing techniques, habits, and routines to strengthen observational skills and understanding. Insights from these techniques bring business and environment together to improve profitability and quality of life.
To summarise; you will leave with:
- More confidence with lifestyle and business decisions and choices, being in control
- Tap into what nature provides for free to reduce overheads
- Increase your family involvement and staff commitment
- Ensure a holiday, a profit, and be doing things that really matter
- Optimising productivity of your enterprises
- Strengthen personal, family, financial, and environmental relationships while growing your farm business
Over all; greater consistency and vision in your business management and more control.
This course introduces farmers to using a different perspective so they can revitalise their business, property, and family life. If you are questioning your results, want a new challenge, or looking for ideas to start your succession process then this course is for you.
Foundation Course: (8 days over 4 months)
This course builds a foundation for you to mange wholistically by exploring cornerstones of farm business; environment and human decision-making.
Workshop 1. Reading Landscape Health; Ecosystem Processes (2 days)
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Ability to read the soil surface; the first place to indicate pastoral ecosystem change;Discover your business foundation. Learn to read your landscape and understand water and mineral cycling, energy flow, and community dynamics regarding pasture production, observe and identify early warning signs of poor ecosystem health, understand impact of tools humans use to enhance resilience of landscape function. This experience will enhance any farm environemntal plan you have or intend to create.
- How to identify causes of production problems;
- Understand “rule of succession” and its influence in production systems;
- Learn how biodiversity brings stability and resilience to farm production and business;
- How to create experiments to produce environmental solutions; and
- How to monitor landscape function and health.
For more click this link for a short video
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Workshop 2. Regenerative Farm Management: Creating Sound Choices (2 days)
Learn importance of human creativity in managing businesses; includes understanding and creating a Holistic Context for your farm, understand nature of change and communication between decision-makers, understanding how decisions can be checked, and learn to monitor and review your choices to become proactive in addressing problems. Priority here is to use quality of life rather than mere profitability to drive business decision-making process beyond end of your financial year.
- Purpose and direction for family and business
- A checklist to test soundness of major family and business decisions
- Able to constantly focus family and staff efforts toward your business’s current and future requirements
- Able to simultaneously address short term needs with long term aspirations
- Able to prioritise all family and business activities; and
- Able to monitor for earliest signs of change from that planned.
For more click this link for a short video
Workshop 3. Generate Lasting Wealth with Holistic Financial Principles (2 days)
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Learn which expenses generate income verses new income. Learn how to look at budgeting and finance from a new perspective, how to indentify logjams, weak link, and root causes of problems, explore nature of spending activities and how these behaviours could be costing your business, understand limitations of gross margins when looking for true profitability, explore concept of marginal reaction beyond finances to all farming practices, and activities to challenge how money is prioritised to create true profit. Often value of something is much more than its cost.
- Gain more emotional equity with your annual budgeting;
- Able to link investing in biological capital along with dollar profit;
- Understanding how business size, debt, and overheads lift risk;
- Learn psychology of planning and habits of success; and
- Brainstorm new sources of income, learn which expenses generate income for your business.
For more click this link for a short video
Workshop 4. Farm Recovery Plan with Holistic Planned Grazing Principles (2 days)
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Consider multiple factors when planning grazing to lift efficiency of labour;Plan to regenerate pastures and repair erosion with animal grazing;Move beyond simple feed budgeting;Learn how to go beyond feed budgeting to use animals to enhance landscape resilience, learn principles and relevance of recovery and grazing periods, explore issues of animal nutrition, learn advantages and disadvantages of various grazing regimes, explore strategy and application of planning animal grazing to enhance landscape function. In addition, learn how to monitor on-going health of ecosystem processes.
- Move beyond simple feed budgeting;
- Plan to regenerate pastures and repair erosion with animal grazing;
- Consider multiple factors when planning grazing to lift efficiency of labour;
- Insights into livestock nutrition and culture; and
- Insights to deal with drought.
For more click this link for a short video
The following costs are for farming businesses.
Investment: Each two day workshop is $850.00 first person (GST incl), additional staff or family welcome by negotiation for $50pp/day plus any resource costs and suddenly its half price per person.
Better still sign up for the entire course for only $3,000fp with additional staff and family for $50.00pp/day. Costs include: training notes, smokos, lunches, visiting regenerative farmers and follow-up phone calls and zoom calls.
Refreshers @ $150.00/day plus any resource costs.More?
Contact John 027 6737 885 or email here
John King has been personally trained by Allan Savory of the Savory Institute (and founder of Holistic Management) and is registered with Savory Institute and Holistic Management International This is your guarantee of quality, professionalism, and ethics.