Farm business analysis and support tools
Farm business performance is enhanced with good management systems and skills, attention to detail, monitoring, measuring, analysing, and reviewing key metrics within your business and engaging with peers and other people who you trust and who have experience you value and skills you can utilise.
This page provides access to dairy specific tools that have been developed by the dairy industry for farmers and their advisors to assist with business and system analysis as well as farm planning.
MiniMilkBiz (MMB) – checking in on your business
With minimal data entry, MiniMilkBiz enables a quick assessment of the current performance of a dairy business from a cash perspective. With a focus on feed inputs, it calculates key physical and financial numbers and ratios related to the milking herd over flexible time periods.
Read moreDairy Standard Chart of Accounts (SCoA)
Vital for all dairy businesses it enables farmers, bookkeepers, and accountants to allocate income and expenses to categories compliant for tax purposes and farm management purposes. It aligns your accounting software perfectly with MiniMilkBiz, DairyBase and Farm Business Snapshot.
DairyBase
An in-depth online tool available to farmers and their advisors to analyse historical farm physical and financial performance. Generates detailed reports to help you make more informed decisions for your business.
Farm Business Snapshot
An easy-to-use resource that requires financial records along with 5 key physical pieces of data, it is an historical analysis of your business showing your cash and profit position with less physical data required than DairyBase.
Farm System Evaluator
An online tool enabling you to make informed decisions about farm system change before making a significant investment. Assesses your ‘readiness’ to adopt a new system, identifies a system best suited to your goals and needs and helps you prepare with a strategic plan and an action plan.
Dairy service provider registry
A website to help you connect with dairy industry consultants, no matter where you are located.
Our Farm, Our Plan
Supported by the NSW Government, Our Farm, Our Plan is an initiative of Dairy Australia and is designed to help dairy farmers set long term goals, improve business performance, succession plan and manage risk.