Designed to inspire, motivate and provide critical business, finance and planning skills for young farmers and fishers, the conference boasts a number of high profile experts on its program. Young Farmer Business Program team leader Alex Hicks said the inaugural Young Farmer Business Program Conference would include a range of speakers and its focus would be on business skills, finance, planning and giving inspiration to participants to not only survive, but thrive in primary industries.<br /><br />“Mr Bouris will deliver the keynote address and we are looking forward to his insights that will help young people to build business skills, which are so important to succeeding in agriculture. His experience of just what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur will be invaluable for participants to hear,” Ms Hicks said.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/rural-weekly/conference-designed-to-inspire-motivate-and-provide-critical-skills/news-story/21cde235fdb0417bd721fd92bd55fa23" target="_blank">For the full story click through to the Weekly Times Now website.</a>

The Safe Ag Systems software launched in 2017 to help small farmers manage in an increasingly corporate industry following the harmonisation of Occupational Health &amp; Safety laws in Australia.<br /><br />Based in Adelaide, South Australia, Safe Ag Systems now has more than 600 customers and 4000 users across Australia and New Zealand.<br /><br />“We saw a real need to supply a solution to agriculture because the world of agriculture had changed – the compliance associated with it, the paperwork, the management of it needed to be run like a big business rather than a small family farm,” Safe Ag Systems CEO Katy Landt said.<br /><br /><a href="http://theleadsouthaustralia.com.au/industries/primary-industries/aussie-farming-software-expands-into-uk/" target="_blank">For the full story click through to The Lead website.</a>

A career in agriculture was always on the cards for Wade Ivone who grew up in the small northern Victorian town of Whorouly but knew there was a lot more to the world of agriculture.<br /><br />Thanks to a Gardiner Dairy Foundation tertiary scholarship that supported his two-year Advanced Diploma of Agribusiness Management at Longerenong Agricultural College, Wade is now fulfilling his dreams.<br /><br />"My main interest in ag came from my father being a stock agent and I always grew up wanting to do that," Wade said.<br /><br />Applications for 2021 will open again in September 2020.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.farmonline.com.au/story/6552400/gardiner-scholarship-opens-farmers-eyes/" target="_blank">Read the full story online at the Farm Online National website.</a>