Applications Open For 2025 Rabobank Business Programs

Applications for the 2025 intake of Ra­bobank’s Business Management Programs – the Farm Managers Program (FMP) and the Executive Development Program (EDP) – are now open.

Designed for farmers at various career stages, the two available programs – the Executive Development Program for farm business owners or senior managers and the Farm Managers Program for emerging farmers – aim to provide participants with the latest insights in business management.

Rabobank regional manager Australia and New Zealand Mark Wiessing said, “The programs are incredibly valuable for primary producers as they allow the opportunity to take a step back from the day-to-day opera­tional side of their businesses and spend time developing strategies to help ensure that their operations remain resilient into the future.”

Mr Wiessing said this year’s FMP pro­gram for young and emerging farmers will be run in Victoria’s Yarra Valley from June 15 to 20 this year. “The FMP provides a fo­rum for farmers from across a range of ag­ricultural sectors to find out what is working for them in their farming roles,” he said.

EDP alumni and Mandurama based farm­er, Stuart Tait believes the course was ex­actly what he needed to continue to develop his career and management skills.“I applied for the Executive Development Program with the aim of developing a strategic plan for the next 10 to 15 years for our beef-cat­tle breeding and trading, and dryland winter cropping business, and to learn how to iden­tify and analyse various opportunities which may present themselves,” he said.

“The EDP was very well organised and structured, each and every session was well aimed to complete the strategic puzzle for a modern farming business,” he said.

Applications for the FMP and EDP close on Monday, 31 March. Further information and applications can be found at www.ra­bobank.com.au/agribusiness/businessmanagement-programs