Our Resilient Farming Business

Our Resilient Farming Business is a chance for you to take time out to work purely on your business instead of in your business – sharing the load together.

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Our Resilient Farming Business | Growing Wāhine Leadership

Preparing farming partners to adapt through change

The next drought is coming, prices will swing, costs are rising and regulations are tightening.

Change and uncertainty and the resulting risks and opportunities are not new. But the pace and scale of change facing kiwi farmers is.

Navigating your farming business through accelerating change starts and the kitchen table, with calm and open minds and business plans and financial accounts open.

Resilience is a skill. It can be learnt and starts with investing time in preparation.

Farming and growing partners – Our Resilient Farming Business is a chance for you to take time out to work purely on your business instead of in your business – sharing the load together.

This programme is available to be run for established groups – please get in touch.

Two full-day in-person modules 1 month apart – group learning with expert facilitators.

Plus some self directed pre-work and intermodule work.

Both modules are 9:00am to 5:00pm

You will leave the programme:

  1. Understanding how you respond to change and how to embrace it
  2. Understanding how financially resilient your business currently is
  3. Knowing what your resilient farming business looks like
  4. With practical tools for ‘what if’ scenario planning & conversations
  5. With confidence to decide where to focus & prioritise resources
  6. With a realistic action plan to cultivate and build resilience
  7. Able to access tools and support networks that help build resilience

Partners participate together – couples, owner/manager, mother/son, father/son or similar.
You will need to have:

  • access to financial accounts for your farming business
  • ability to read and understand financial accounts (profit or loss statement & balance sheet)
  • ability to prepare and understand a budget

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