RABDF has relaunched its Entrepreneurs in Dairying programme to encourage aspiring and existing dairy farmers to better their businesses and undertake new training.
The initiative, which has so far trained 78 individuals over the last two years, is aimed at new entrants coming into agriculture and those already running a dairy farming business and will start in September this year.
Programmes will run at Cannington College, Somerset; Gelli Aur, Carmarthenshire; Newton Rigg, Cumbria; and Reaseheath College, Cheshire. Each centre will offer 15 places.
Training is in collaboration with AHDB Dairy, NFU and The Andersons Centre, and will feature six weekly sessions, together with two full days delivered by industry specialists accompanied by a local farming business.
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Content will focus on starting up in dairy farming and improving businesses and financial management.
RABDF policy director Tim Brigstocke says: “The programme is designed to fill the apparent void of training among people already working on-farm. For example, those after five years out of college, herd managers and farmers’ sons and daughters without a clear future on the family unit.
“They are all keen to progress up the ladder, however to do so they require training and coaching in specialist areas, such as how to farm in their own right through joint ventures or contracting arrangements and how to run a business.”
Farmers Guardian met two dairy farmers who have completed Entrepreneurs in Dairy – one who has returned to the family farm and another who has realised a lifelong ambition for a new start up.
Source: FGInsight
Link: https://www.fginsight.com/vip/ambitious-dairy-farmers-offered-training-to-improve-skills-for-future-business-14875
