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Agriculture & Agribusiness

Running farming as a business and using digital tools on the farm, from records and planning to markets and suppliers.

Area status: PlannedStarter → Proficient

Designed and scheduled, not yet being built.

At a glance

  • 3 training programmes
  • Levels: Starter → Proficient
  • Used in 2 seed pathways
  • 7 skills

Training in this area

3 training programmes

Each programme shows its own status. Planned modules are an outline and may change before they are built and reviewed.

Status: Planned

Digital Farm Tools

Choose and use apps and spreadsheets for farm records, weather and market information, and share information with buyers and advisors.

  • Level range: Starter → Capable
  • No related pathway yet

Planned modules

  1. Choosing farm apps
  2. Weather and market information
  3. Farm spreadsheets
  4. Sharing information with buyers and advisors

What you’ll practise

  • Comparing two farm record apps
  • Building a simple farm spreadsheet

Skills

  • Digital farm tools
  • Spreadsheet basics

Best after: Digital Foundations, Farm Business Records

Status: PlannedStart here

Farm Business Records

Run the farm on records, not memory: inputs and costs, production and stock, sales and buyers, and season planning.

  • Level range: Starter → Capable
  • 2 related pathways

Planned modules

  1. Why farm records pay
  2. Inputs and costs
  3. Production and stock
  4. Sales and buyers
  5. Planning the season

What you’ll practise

  • Setting up an input-cost record
  • Planning inputs for a season

Skills

  • Farm records
  • Seasonal and input planning
  • Customer and supplier records

Best after: Digital Foundations

Status: Coming later

Agribusiness Markets

Understand value chains, buyers and contracts, quality and grading, and when and where to sell.

  • Level range: Capable → Proficient
  • No related pathway yet

Planned modules

  1. Value chains
  2. Buyers and contracts
  3. Quality and grading
  4. Prices and timing

What you’ll practise

  • Comparing two buyer offers
  • Reading a simple supply contract

Skills

  • Agribusiness markets
  • Pricing and margins

Best after: Farm Business Records, Business Foundations

Also relevant

These programmes belong to another area but are useful here. They are taught once, in one place.

Status: Planned

Spreadsheet Foundations

Build tidy, reliable spreadsheets: entering and formatting data, simple formulas, sorting and filtering, using examples from your own kind of work.

Planned modules

  1. Rows, columns and cells
  2. Entering and formatting data
  3. Simple formulas
  4. Sorting and filtering
  5. A tidy, readable sheet

What you’ll practise

  • Building a small list with totals
  • Fixing a broken formula
  • Sorting and filtering a list

Skills

  • Spreadsheet basics
  • Spreadsheet formulas

Best after: Digital Foundations

Examples adapt to your work: the same skills, with examples for farmer, office administrator, business owner.

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Skill families

Before you start: some programmes here build on Digital Foundations, Business & Entrepreneurship.

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Current availability

Planned

  • PlannedDesigned and scheduled, not yet being built. 2 training programmes
  • Coming laterOn the roadmap for a later stage. 1 training programmes

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