Improving Dairy Farm Workplace Efficiency

Boost your farm’s efficiency – review current practices and resources, and explore smarter ways to work.

What you’ll learn

• Review how your workplace runs and identify opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Explore pathways for business growth or self-employment.
• Compare your farm’s efficiency to benchmarks to highlight strengths and weaknesses.
• Explore new technologies and solutions to improve efficiency.
• Evaluate options to improve operations and choose the ones that work best for your business.
• Develop a workplace improvement proposal.

Who is it for?

Farm owners, sharemilkers, farm managers and rural professionals.

Course details

Cost: Free

Format: Four in-person workshops held between milkings, small class sizes led by farmer trainer.

Qualification: Earn the Improving Dairy Farm Workplace Efficiency Micro-credential (Level 5, 16 NZQA credits).

Course requirements

To be eligible for our courses, you must be a New Zealand citizen or hold a NZ resident visa.

You will be required to complete an assessment to demonstrate your learning. You must bring a laptop (ideally) or device to course days to access course materials, editable documents, and assessments.