Understanding Your Farming Business

Understanding Your Farming Business has 2 modules over 3 days covering:

• Module 1 – Production & Financials (2 days)
  • Budgeting, KPI’s, benchmarking and overcoming barriers to new conversations
  • Financial statements, assessing profitability, taxation, business structures and communication strategies
• Module 2 – Decision making & planning for the future (1 day)
  • Action planning, decision making, navigating complexity, risk and long-term sustainability

There is also intermodule work between the modules to cement learning.

The UYFB programme covers:

• Farm financial literacy fundamentals

• Reading and interpreting farm accounts & bank statements

• Building confidence in conversations with banks

• Measuring and improving on-farm performance

• Linking financial and productivity metrics

• Benchmarking against industry standards

• Structured decision-making tools

• Strategies for navigating complexity

• Evaluating financial and market risks

• Aligning farm decisions with long-term sustainability goals

Understanding Your Farming Business is designed for women involved in or supporting  sheep, beef or dairy farm business that want to learn more to increase their contribution.

Fees for 2026 are heavily subsidised by Beef + Lamb New Zealand for all programmes making these just $800+GST per particpant.

Fees for the Invercargill and Christchurch programmes are subsidised further thanks to Alexanders Chartered Accountants making these just $750+GST per participant.

GST receipts can be provided for business claims.