Business Management

Plan to Profit

Improve your financial literacy and the financial management of your farm business. Understand what is, and what is not, making money in your business. Improve your management of business risks. Answer those ‘what-if’ questions vital to your business into the future.

Corporate governance

We invest our time and energy in industry and community boards because we want to see them functioning well. This training will help you achieve this goal!

GROW - Generating Regionally Outstanding Women

A professional development program for women in the NSW farming businesses.

WHS and HR fundamentals

Tocal College has proudly partnered with NSW Farmers to deliver this accredited training to you, the business owner, manager, or supervisor, in a way you can understand!

Community engagement – Moving people towards action

Leading or developing collaborative teams doesn’t have to be like herding cats. It’s all about engagement: getting people to buy into the vision you have for the project. This is two days at Tocal that will help you get everyone on-board, and ensure they stay there.

Performance management and MERI training

Be a better project manager. Know what’s going on in your projects. Know how to evaluate, report and improve what’s going on. And get it all under way with a two-day course run by Tocal.

WHS for supervisors and managers

Workplace Health and Safety is the subject no-one wants to know about until it’s too late! For managers and supervisors, this one-day course at Tocal will help you to keep your workplace, and workforce, safe.

Irrigation 101

Irrigation 101 is a series of online introductory learning modules about key concepts in the Australian irrigation sector. The modules are designed to help new recruits – including on farm employees and others engaging with irrigated agriculture for the first time – gain a better understanding of how the irrigation industry ‘works’.

Photography for field work

Do you just set the camera to “point and shoot” mode? Do you wonder whether you could be doing a better job of using your camera for your projects? This one-day course run by Tocal can get you started.

Exploring beyond diesel - 1

Over 80% of energy consumption in agriculture comes from diesel. Take a break to explore: • What will power machinery in future • What transition technologies are possible • Current and emerging technologies that may shape the future

Exploring beyond diesel - 2

Over 80% of agricultural energy is supplied by diesel fuel. Take a break to explore: • What will power machinery in the future • What transition technologies are possible • Current and emerging technologies that may shape the future

Exploring beyond diesel - 3

Over 80% of agricultural energy is supplied by diesel fuel. Take a break to explore low or zero carbon fuel options and see what is possible.

Exploring beyond diesel - 4

Over 80% of agricultural energy is supplied by diesel fuel. Take a break to explore options for transition away from diesel reliance.

Exploring beyond diesel - 5

Over 80% of agricultural energy is supplied by diesel fuel. Take a break to explore if current engines get close to zero emissions using low/no carbon diesel renewable diesel.

Exploring beyond (fossil) diesel - 6

Over 80% of agricultural energy is supplied by diesel fuel. Take a break to explore: The potential for renewable diesel use both here in Australia and globally