Dairy Farm Business Analysis May 2026

Dairy Farm Business Analysis is a 3-day workshop designed to assist farmers and their advisers to better understand and analyse farm business performance. The workshop covers the importance of getting annual farm physical and financial numbers right, how to interpret farm performance and how to understand cash, profit and wealth for a dairy farm business. This course is recommended for all dairy farmers and their advisers.

If you have a good grasp on the financial management of a dairy farm and are looking to further understand how to analyse farm business performance, then this course is for you! It is recommended that all decision makers in the business attend this workshop to work through the process of farm performance analysis together.

By completing this program you will be able to:

• Identify the types of information required to complete a farm business analysis
• Differentiate and complete analysis components of a farm business (cash, profit and wealth) and identify why each view is unique
• Use DairyBase to extract information to analyse a farm business
• Populate DairyBase with your own farming business figures, leading to detailed analysis of the business
• Recognise the law of diminishing marginal returns and how it applies to a unique dairying system
• Calculate the profit maximising level of an input and the required break-even output to various inputs
• Identify and describe the benefits of risk vs reward for a farming system
• Apply accrual accounting concepts to farm business invoices
• Calculate cost of production for a farm business

This workshop will be facilitated by farm business consultantDan Armstrong. A light lunch will be provided.