Webinar series: QFF Farm Business Hour

QFF hosted the QFF Farm Business Hour webinar series as part of its Farm Business Resilience Program for primary producers in Queensland. The 11-episode series ran from April 22 to July 2023, bringing together industry, government, and professional business advisers.

Episode 1 - Why bother… with a business plan?

Short Bites

Part 1: Why have a business plan

Part 2: The benefits of having a business plan

Part 3: Planning for risks

Part 4: What do I need to create my business plan

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Episode 2 - What’s top of your agenda?

Short Bites

Part 1: What are the main issues farmers are facing?

Part 2: How QFF can assist farmers impacted by natural disasters

Part 3: Top tips for managing risk

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Episode 3 - Managing your greatest asset: Workforce

Short Bites

Part 1: The Queensland Agriculture Industry Workforce Plan

Part 2: Key workforce issues

Part 3: Strategies to attract, retain and up-skill your workforce

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Episode 4 - Managing weather risk

Short Bites

Part 1: BoM weather data

Part 2: Crop insurance challenges

Part 2a: What is, and what are the benefits of parametric insurance?

Part 3: How can insurance be used to improve income stability and manage crop losses?

Part 3a: Weather derivatives

Part 4: How weather data and forecasts can assist farmers

Part 5: Top tips for managing weather risks

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Episode 5 - Cotton Australia: Priorities for industry

Short Bites

Part 1: Key business risks for cotton farmers

Part 2: myBMP best management practices Program

Part 3: Managing a vital resource: water

Part 4: Supply chain issues

Part 5: Cotton industry top tips

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Episode 6 - Walking the wire

Short Bites

Part 1: The role of women in farm businesses

Part 2: The Walking the Wire e-Kit

Part 3: Is the ‘family business’ the same as the ‘business of the family’?

Part 4: Retirement planning and superannuation for rural women

Part 5: Important legal issues rural women should consider

Part 6: Top tips for rural women

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Episode 7 - Biosecurity: priority issues for industry

Short Bites

Part 1: Priority risks for animal biosecurity and how to manage them

Part 2: How QFF can help farmers strengthen biosecurity systems

Part 3: Priority risks for nursery industry and how to manage them

Part 4 : The Queensland Biosecurity Strategy 2018 - 2023

Part 5: Top tips for managing biosecurity risks

Part 6: Being aware of biosecurity risks

Part 7: Biosecurity is for everyone (not just large-scale operations)

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Episode 8 - Family business risks and key issues

Part 1: What is succession planning and who needs it?

Part 2: Where to start when planning for succession

Part 3: The Doctrine of Promissory Estoppel and legal implications when transferring rural assets

Part 4: The difference between Management Succession and Estate Planning

Part 5: The impact of assets, income tests, business structures, government taxes and local regulations on succession planning

Part 6: Major issues that can result from a lack of financial and family planning

Part 7: What is a business continuity plan and how do you get started?

Part 8: What is the PPRR model (prevention, preparedness, response, recovery) best practice in managing disaster risk?

Part 9: Top governance tips for Australian farming families

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Episode 9 - The first 36 hours after a natural disaster event

Short Bites

Part 1: How important are the first 36 hours of the initial response phase after a disaster event?

Part 2: Preparation and communication are vital for navigating natural disaster events

Part 3: Disaster preparedness for nurseries

Part 4: The Queensland DAF Agriculture Disaster Impact Survey: A brief background

Part 5: How to complete the Disaster Impact Survey

Part 6: The Disaster Impact Survey: Where does your data end up?

Part 7: Top tips for farmers responding to natural disaster events

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Episode 10 - Managing farm financial and market risks

Short Bites

Part 1: Financial and market risks for the farming industry

Part 2: How the Farm Debt Restructure Office can assist primary producers

Part 3: The impacts of interest rates on farm businesses

Part 4: QRIDA assistance available for farming businesses

Part 5: The importance of risk management

Part 6: Analysing the impact of risk

Part 7: Factors to consider for managing risk

Part 8: Tools available to manage risk

Part 9: What to do if things go wrong

Part 10: Top tips for managing financial and market risks

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Episode 11 - Tools for managing climate risk

Short Bites

Part 1: The difference between weather and climate

Part 2: The importance of forecasting and methods and tools available to alleviate the guesswork in weather forecasting

Part 3: The Climate Services for Agriculture online platform

Part 4: How Climate Services for Agriculture can inform farmers’ decision making and build climate resilience and preparedness

Part 5: Ways that farmers can act on climate change

Part 6: The impacts of climate change on Queensland’s horticultural regions and production systems

Part 7: How Farm Business Resilience Plans can be utilised to mitigate weather and climate risks

Part 8: What does El Niño mean for our farmers?

Part 9: Top tips for farmers facing weather and climate change issues

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