The Money Course
The part of farming nobody teaches. Gross margins, cashflow, forward selling, scheme income, and the arithmetic of adding value — which is the only part that reliably works.
| Lessons | Seven |
|---|---|
| Length | About five hours |
| Level | Anybody running a farm |
| Includes | Spreadsheets that work |
What the course covers.
Gross margin by enterprise
Gross margin by enterprise, done properly
Cashflow
Cashflow, which kills more farms than yield ever does
Forward selling and basic hedging
Forward selling and basic hedging, without the mystique
Agri-environment income and how to layer it
Agri-environment income and how to layer it
The value-add multiple: barley at £180 a tonne against beer
The value-add multiple: barley at £180 a tonne against beer at twenty to forty times that
When to diversify and when it is a distraction
When to diversify and when it is a distraction
The honest chapter: what the accounts on this farm actually
The honest chapter: what the accounts on this farm actually look like
Who it is for.
The part of farming nobody teaches. Gross margins, cashflow, forward selling, scheme income, and the arithmetic of adding value — which is the only part that reliably works.
Filmed on this farm with the people who actually do the work, and including the honest chapter about what did not work and what it cost.
- Lessons: Seven
- Length: About five hours
- Level: Anybody running a farm
- Includes: Spreadsheets that work
Video
Filmed here, not in a studio.
Lifetime access
Watch it whenever.
Free at Ploughing On
One course a year included.
The honest chapter
What went wrong, and what it cost.
The other courses
Ploughing On includes one a year.
At fifteen pounds a month, that pays for itself on almost any of these.
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
No. Every course starts from the assumption that you have never held a soil auger, because most people have not.
It is not. It is what six years of expensive mistakes taught us, written down so you can make cheaper ones.
