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Efficiency of operations is vital to ensure business resilience. Picture: Ruth Downing.

Tools and skills for farming and growing businesses

Agriculture and horticulture are changing, and businesses need to adapt to keep pace. Whether its staffing, skills or sustainability, we're collating resources to help you ensure your business thrives.

Communication skills are a core component to any manager's skillset.

Building your team

Your business is only as good as the people you employ, so it's essential to get things off to the best start.

Whether you're advertising a role, or welcoming students and young people onto your farm, we've got a wealth of information to help you build a strong, motivated workforce.

Make hiring a success

Recruitment Toolkit

This toolkit can help you with each step in recruiting a new employee, so you can focus on finding the right person.

Find out how you can benefit from creating work experience placements on your farm.

Work Experience Toolkit

Find out how you can benefit from offering work experience placements and how you can make them a success.

T Level students and apprentices can be enthusiastic employees.

How you can benefit from apprenticeships and T Levels

Find out how young apprentices and students can bring a lot of enthusiasm and energy to your business.

Recruitment Toolkit

Our Recruitment Toolkit can help you find the right employee to fit in with your business.

Discipline Toolkit

Our Discipline Toolkit can help you understand, process and handle tricky issues with employees.

Develop your skills and those of your farm team with our range of training materials.

Developing skills

We believe everyone in farming and growing should have the chance to develop their skills and knowledge to improve their processes, practices and performance.

New technology and tools all require new skills, so the core skill set needed in farming and growing is changing, too.

Here you can find out how Toolbox Talks can help you quickly bring your team's skills to the same standard, how coaching can help you motivate your staff, and much more.

Strengthen your skills

Toolbox Talks

You can quickly bring your team up to speed on key subject areas and share best practice with our Toolbox Talks.

Improve your coaching skills and motivate your staff

Find out how coaching skills are a key factor in increasing loyalty of staff and improving their efficiency.

There are countless ways you can stay on top of your continuing professional development.

Maintain your CPD

Ensure your accreditations are valid by tracking all your CPD requirements in our Learning Record.

Improve your processes around staffing and management with our guides and webinars.

Business management

Running a business requires a host of additional skills and knowledge, too. Which is why we're working to bring resources together to help you run yours.

Whether it's handling issues with staff or skilling your team up to help your business become more resilient, we're bringing advice together to help you improve the management of your business.

Improve your management

Our sustainable farming hub

We hear from farmers and growers about how they've adapted their businesses to make the most of the SFI.

Having an open and honest disciplinary process can help you avoid some staff issues.

Disciplinary Toolkit

Ensure you're following best practice by following our step-by-step guide to handling disciplinary issues on-farm.

Management: Time to get lean

Find out what lean management is and how your farming or growing businesses could benefit from it.

Our guides, webinars and downloadable tools and templates can help you strengthen your farm business.

Make the most of our resources

Whether it's learning materials, tools or templates, we're bringing together a host of resources on subjects across farming, growing and business to help you strengthen your company.

Find out more about them all here.

Toolkits

Tackle tricky issues with thorough, step-by-step advice, practical templates and downloadable tools in our expert-approved Toolkits.

Download tools

Business Excellence webinars

Our webinars are hosted by management specialists who have direct experience with farming and growing businesses. Watch them in full and access the related tools.

Learn from industry experts

Business guides

Get quick tips on important issues and direct links to trusted organisations with our growing range of Business guides.

Find out more

Your expertise is needed to shape the future of skills development in farming and growing.

Help shape the future of the industry

Your expertise can be crucial in helping to develop the farming and growing courses and apprenticeships of the future!

It's clear that technology and tools are changing, so the technical education and apprenticeships available are adapting too - and your knowledge can help develop the workforce of the future.

Help the industry evolve