Thinking about taking on more of the farm business? This course covers strategic plans, viability checks, budgets, people, machinery and land care. Made for family farms and anyone moving up on a bigger property.
Viability analysis and business assessment are the topics nobody teaches you at the gate. They tell you which parts of the operation are carrying the rest.
Running a team, planning seasons ahead and looking after equipment and land are learnable skills, separate from knowing how to farm.
No start dates and no set class times. The platform opens from any browser, which suits a week that never looks the same twice.
Farm management skills mostly get used where you already are: on the home place, or stepping up on a larger property. Corporate farms and supply businesses also hire for planning, budgets and resource work. The day mixes paperwork with weather, and the people who do well are the ones who plan for both.
Supporting the running of the property day to day.
Learning the planning side of a farm business.
Tracking what the operation has and uses.
Keeping machinery scheduled and serviced.
Inputs in, produce out, on time.
The numbers behind a season.
Watching how the land is holding up.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience.
Three things that make this a business course for people on the land.
Strategic planning and business plans open the course, because everything after that depends on where you are heading.
Human, physical and natural resources each get a topic: the team, the machinery and the land itself.
The work applies to a family farm or a larger property. You are planning your own place, not a case study.
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Awarded by the college once you finish.
Counted toward your professional development.
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An advisor runs through the eight topics.
Weekly plan, or pay upfront in full.
Strategy, business plan, then a viability check.
People, machinery and the land itself.
There are no entry requirements. The course suits people already on the land and people moving into the management side of it.
From $29 a week on a plan, with no deposit and no credit check. An advisor confirms current pricing.
About 100 hours of content, with six months of access to work through it.
Yes. There are no set start dates and no class times, and the platform opens from any browser whenever you get a spare hour.
No. This is the business layer above that: planning, viability, budgets, people, equipment and land care. It assumes you know your own enterprise.
No exams, ever. Assessment tasks sit inside the topics as you work through them.
It carries a Certificate of Achievement, and the college is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office and registered with the International Approval and Registration Centre, with CPD credits attached. That is accreditation for professional development. The college is not an RTO and the course is not nationally recognised. Those are different things, and for managing your own operation the value is in the planning skills themselves.
Yes. A 10-day cooling off period runs from the start of the course, with a full money back guarantee inside that window.
You enrol in this course through The Career Academy, an online college in Australia that delivers the course itself.
The college has run for over 15 years and helps more than 25,000 students a year, with unlimited tutor support and progress check ins while you study.
Picture sitting down before next season with a plan you trust, and knowing which paddock is carrying the place.