Curriculum · Module 18
From Here to a Changed Year
The course ends where a farmer actually stands: with a shortlist, a fodder-flow shortfall, a lease, a wage bill and a compliance calendar. This module takes the baseline that cannot be captured retrospectively, decides which enterprises survive contact with everything taught since Module 1, orders the first year of change, finances it, diarises the law, and works one real Highveld property end to end.
- 87 Where You Are Starting: the Baseline Audit Settles what must be measured before anything changes, because a baseline cannot be taken retrospectively. Assemble a dated baseline audit from the farm file and the artefacts each module producedIdentify who can lawfully authorise a change in grazing on the land you are standing onState what a lease term does to a three-year recovery plan, and which changes still pay on a short one 14 min
- 88 Choosing What to Run: the Enterprise Matrix Settles which of your shortlisted enterprises survive contact with the law, the land and the arithmetic taught since Module 1. Score your shortlisted enterprises across the five gates using everything the course has taughtTreat the lawful route to market as a pass-or-fail column rather than a weighted scoreName the enterprises this course advises against on published South African evidence 15 min
- 89 The First-Year Plan That Does Not Break the Farm Settles what a farmer actually changes in year one, in what order, and what must not be changed yet. Order the first year of change so that each step pays for the nextKeep an unchanged camp or mob as a control, and write the exit criterion before you startState why stocking rate is the last variable to move, and what evidence would justify moving it 13 min
- 90 Paying for It: People, Tenure and the Money Settles how a regenerative transition is financed in South Africa, and the employment and tenure obligations that come with the labour it needs. Identify what a lender will and will not finance in a grazing transitionState the employment duties that attach from your first employeeApply ESTA's long-term-occupier protection to a real person on your land 14 min
- 91 The Compliance Calendar and the Monitoring Set Settles the year of statutory obligations into one diarised calendar, and the smallest measurement set that will tell you in three years whether it worked. Build a twelve-month compliance calendar for your own species mix, diarised on lead times rather than on deadlinesSeparate the diarised duties from the event-triggered ones, and rehearse the event drills before you need themReduce the whole course's record-keeping to one notebook that doubles as your CARA defence file 13 min
- 92 The Delta Farms Worked Plan and Its Upper Bound Settles the course by working one real Highveld property end to end, and stating why the resulting number is a ceiling rather than a forecast. Work a real 100 ha Highveld property from site data through to a first-year planState every assumption that makes the resulting figure an upper bound rather than a forecastName the three unresolved site facts whose resolution would move the number most 16 min