Learning modules
Animal Welfare on Farms
This module will help you:
- Understand why animal welfare matters
- Understand our collective responsibility
- Understand the benefits of healthy animals on farm business productivity
- Know about our animal welfare regulations, and how to deal with animal welfare issues
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Annual Cash Budgets and Monthly Cash Flows
This module will help you:
- Know what annual cash budgets and monthly cashflows are, why they are important and what they tell you about your farm business
- Know how to use this information to inform on-farm decisions and improve the profitability of your farm business
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Body Condition Scoring (Sheep)
This module will help you:
- Understand the value of Body Condition Scoring (BCS) and how to make it part of your farm practice
- Get to know the Body Condition Scoring scale and how to Body Condition Score
- Know the key times to BCS
- Have some ideas of how to deal with different BCS mobs
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Business Planning
This module will help you:
- Know what a farm business plan is
- Understand the benefits of having a farm business plan
- Know how to create a farm business plan
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Employing and managing farm staff
This module has eight sections which starts with setting goals, recruiting and bring staff on board, performance reviews, health and wellbeing, and exiting staff.
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Farm Business Succession Planning
This module will help you:
- Know what a Farm Business Transition and Succession (FBTS) Plan is
- Know the benefits of having a FBTS Plan
- Know how to make a FBTS plan
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Feed Fundamentals
This module will help you:
- Understand the concepts of feed quality and feed quantity at different times of the year
- Use different tools and/or calculations to assess available feed
- Identify your animals’ energy requirements
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Growing Good Lambs
This module will help you:
- Understand the impact of good ewe feeding on future lamb growth over the scanning to lambing period
- Understand the impact of good lamb feeding from birth to weaning
- Understand the impact of good lamb feeding post-weaning
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Introduction to Freshwater quality
This module will help you to:
- Understand the key element of the B+LNZ Environment Strategy
- Understand key issues of freshwater and issues
- Understand freshwater monitoring and stream health indicators
- Know where you can go to take further action and find support
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Measuring Progress – KPIs and Benchmarking
This module will help you:
- What are KPIs and benchmarking and why use them
- What are the best KPIs to use
- How to benchmark against a KPI (including using online calculators)
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On-farm Biosecurity
This module will help you:
- Understand what biosecurity is and why it's important
- Know the risks - animals and plant
- Know everyday practices to reduce biosecurity risks
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Principles of Feeding: Growing and Grazing Pasture
This module will help you:
- Understand why effective growing and grazing of pasture is important for farm profitability
- Distinguish the main pasture types from one another
- Know the difference between effective and poor grazing of the main pasture types
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Principles of Feeding from: Lambing to Weaning
This module will help you:
- Know how a ewe’s’ feed intake during lactation impacts on lamb weaning weights
- Know how to work with your available feed to get the best possible weaning weights
- Know how to recognise target pasture cover throughout the year
- Know what other factors (non-feed) to consider when making weaning decisions
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Principles of Feeding from: Mating to Lambing (Sheep)
This module will help you:
- Know a ewe's feed requirements from mating to lambing
- Plan your feed for the period from mating to lambing
- Know how to work with your available feed to get ewes up to target body condition for lambing
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Principles of Feeding from: Weaning to Mating (Sheep)
This module will help you:
- Know a ewe's feed requirements post weaning, during the 6 to 8 weeks pre-mating period and throughout mating
- Know how to work with your available feed to get ewes up to target body condition for mating to get the best possible conception rates
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Principles of Pasture Establishment
This module will help you:
- Understand the benefits of establishing new pasture
- Understand best practice around preparation and sowing
- Know the factors that will lead to the successful establishment of new pasture
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Sheep Mating Management
This module will help you:
- Plan for mating
- Optimise ewe ovulation
- Care for rams
- Know about management practices for mating
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Small Group Learning Supports Taking Action on the Farm
This module will help you to:
- Discover what small group learning can help you achieve
- Find out what a well run small group looks like
- Make small group learning work for you
- Connect a new group
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Stock Reconciliation
This module will help you:
- Know why stock reconciliations are important
- Know what stock reconciliations are
- Know how to do stock reconciliations
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Stock Water Management
This module will help you:
- Understand the benefits of a stock water management system
- Plan a stock water management system
- Implement a stock water management system
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Understanding our Environment
This module will help you to:
- Understand the key element of the B+LNZ Environment Strategy
- Understand the challenges and good work going on
- Know what farmers are doing
- Know where you can go to take further action and find support
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Understanding your Farm Business Profitability
This module will help you:
- Know what Profit and Loss Statements and Balance Sheets are
- Know what they tell you about your financial situation and how to use the information to inform on-farm decisions and improve the profitability of your farm business
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Understanding your Soils
This module will help you:
- Know the physical characteristics of soil
- Know how to assess your soil
- Understand soil management practices that match your farm practices with your soil resource to get the right balance for sustainable production
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Wormwise managing worms and sheep
This module will help you to:
- Use stock integration to manage parasite load
- Understand how to use testing in managing parasite load
- Know how to decide what drench to sue and how to drench correctly
- Know how to tell if your stock has resistance to parasite load
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