AG.Biz Ready – South East

AG.Biz Ready – South East is a bespoke version of Resilient Ready’s Business Community Resilience (BCR) Toolkit program funded by the Young Farmer Business Program in NSW.

This FREE 10-week program is open to all young farmers from the South East region.

This program will build your essential skills to forward plan and prepare for future disasters and unplanned events.

Benefits include:

• Build your personalised business resilience toolkit to future plan for disasters and unplanned events
• Receive 10 micro-learning (5-minute) modules issued that can be completed on your phone, tablet or laptop
• Access video case studies from local farmers with real life experience
• The opportunity to connect with famers online and/or face to face

Data collected across the project is shared to identify current capabilities (or strengths) and vulnerabilities (or risks) across the local business community.

With the outcome to get you, your farming business and your community future ready.

This project is FREE for current and future:

• Farm owners
• Farm managers and operators
• Farmhands

Designed specifically for young farmers (aged 18-35), we encourage inter-generational learning and welcome all farmers from the South East region. 

South East includes the following Local Government Areas:

• Bega Valley
• Eurobodalla
• Goulburn Mulwaree
• Hilltops
• Kiama
• Queanbeyan-Palerang
• Shellharbour
• Shoalhaven
• Snowy Monaro
• Upper Lachlan
• Wingecarribee
• Wollongong
• Yass Valley

Registrations open on 19 February 2024, and the program kicks off in April.

You will receive a new micro-learning module every Tuesday evening from 2nd April until 4th June 2024.

You can attend a local workshop:

• Bega on 10 April and 28 May
• Nowra on 12 April and 30 May

The program formally ends on 30th June 2024.

This program will help young farmers take small steps to build vital knowledge and skills in farm business resilience.

You will learn about 10 topics:

• Transforming knowledge into revenue
• Understanding who’s a linchpin
• Having the right insurance
• Being happy at work
• Staying financially viable in business
• Having the right team on your farm
• Developing solid business networks
• Turning disasters into opportunities
• Dealing with financial hardships
• Protecting against cyber-attacks

Each module takes only 5-10 minutes to complete.

You will receive helpful information and tips, watch lived experience videos from farming peers, and attend community and online workshops to build local connections with others like you.

This program is funded by the Young Farmer Business Program (YFBP) – an initiative of the NSW Department of Primary Industries.