Financial Literacy: Key topic at Dairy Days

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11 February 2011

Financial Literacy: Key topic at Dairy Days

The Dairy Women’s Network kicks off Dairy Days on Tuesday, 15 February. The national workshops, funded by DairyNZ, promise to inspire, inform and motivate New Zealand’s dairy women to take hold of their farm’s financial future.

The topic of the Dairy Days is “Building Your Farm Budget from Cashbook to Cashflow” and will be presented throughout February and March in both the North and South Islands.

“The roles and skills of women in the New Zealand dairy industry, especially when it comes to finance, is an under-utilised resource,” says Rebecca Rowe, a former rural banking manager and farm consultant and one of this year’s Dairy Days presenters.

Rowe will be presenting in the North Island and her colleague, Claire Harvey will take on the South Island. The two women will be speaking about the farm budget and how to manage it.

Ms Rowe believes, “improving financial literacy is one of the biggest opportunities to increase farm profit in the industry and these workshops offer women a massive opportunity to up-skill at an affordable cost.”

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