People management

Dairy Australia's 'The People in Dairy' program help farmers improve how they attract, deploy, retain and develop the people they need to operate their farm profitably.

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People are a core ingredient for successful dairy farms. Their skills and energy are critical to the farm’s profitability and resilience. If you work closely with employees and family and manage the working relationship carefully, your business is most likely to provide wealth and work-life balance, and have the capacity to grow if you want it to.

Key outcomes of the People in Dairy program

Dairy Australia works with farmers, consultants, HR specialists and researches in three key areas:

• Designing farm systems to fit people, rather than trying to find people to fit system
• Increasing productivity by ensuring the right people do the right jobs at the right time
• Placing great value on having effective working relationships

The People in Dairy program has also initiated projects to:

• Help advisers support farmers with ‘people issues’
• Build the industry’s ability to attract and retain people
• Develop future farmer leaders to influence public policy and manage industry investments