3.5.1. Calculation of labour costs of family members
3.5.2. Documentation of fields, crops and treatments carried out on them
3.5.3. Documentation of the results obtained, their quantity and the quality of production
3.5.4. Documentation of production costs with external services
3.5.5. Improving the profitability of the farm and the use of advice in this respect
Knowledge and documentation to help achieve financial stability
- What is sustainable agriculture?
- Common Agricultural Policy – financing
- Sustainable Agriculture Guide
- Rationale and instruments for making Europe’s economy sustainable
- Legal compliance
- Financial stability
- What is financial stability?
- Glossary
- Reasons for loss of financial stability
- Importance of business planning
- Planning principles and most common mistakes
- Agricultural risks
- Knowledge and documentation to help achieve financial stability
- Calculation of labour costs for family members
- Documentation of fields, crops and treatments carried out on them
- Documentation of the results obtained, their quantity and the quality of production
- Documentation of production costs with external services
- Improving the profitability of the farm and the use of advice in this respect
- Farm Management
- Benefits of good farm management
- Farm strategy
- History of land use
- Technical equipment and the nature of production
- Professional advice
- Supply and sales markets
- Production and management education
- The need for a risk assessment for workplaces
- Planning of farm activities
- Risks to farm operations
- Impact of the farm’s activities on the environment and the local community
- Sustainable farm production
- Soil and climate
- Building soil fertility
- Crop rotation
- Animal welfare
- Decision support systems
- Inspection and repair of mechanical equipment
- Sowing and Planting
- Benefits of proper sowing and planting
- Supply of seed/planting stock
- Uncertified material for sowing/planting
- Quality of seed/planting stock
- Agrotechnical deadlines
- Optimising the selection of crops and their varieties
- Selection of plant varieties and market outlets
- Plant succession
- Optimum plant density
- Genetically modified plants
- Growing or presence of atypical plants
- Invasive species for Poland
- Soil Management
- Nutrient Management
- Effective nutrient management
- Testing of soil for macro- and micronutrient content, organic matter content and pH
- Regulation of soil pH
- Determination of mineral fertilisation rates
- Fertiliser balance
- Characteristics of mineral fertilisers and their availability to plants
- Foliar fertilisation
- Precision fertilisation
- Sources of fertilisers
- Organic fertilisers of animal origin
- Use of zoonotic fertilisers
- Other organic fertilisers
- Storage and disposal of organic fertilisers
- Use of municipal sewage sludge
- Mineral fertiliser storage
- Application of fertilisers
- Analysis of the risk of water pollution, impact on the environment and consumers
- Professional fertiliser advice
- Plant protection
- Crop protection means secure yields
- Integrated Plant Protection
- Fertilisers or growth promoters that are informal plant protection products
- Proper use of plant protection products
- Implementation of the protection measure
- Sources of crop infection
- Thresholds of the economic harmfulness of pests
- Agrophage control
- Decision-support systems in plant protection
- Reduced effectiveness of plant protection products and development of resistance in agrophages
- Use of APCs from different chemical groups
- Protection of biodiversity in and around chemically protected areas
- Documentation of the rationale for plant protection measures
- Approved PPPs
- PPPs prohibited by law
- Location and documentation of the purchase of PPPs
- Rules for transporting PPPs
- Rules for storing PPPs
- Location of the PPP warehouse
- Construction of the PPP warehouse
- Equipment of the PPP warehouse
- Security of the PPP warehouse
- Personal protective equipment and emergencies
- Buffer zones
- Protection against local contamination
- Dealing with empty PPP containers
- Residues of PPPs in agricultural products
- Agricultural chemicals and waste management
- Training on the prevention of hazardous events
- Chemicalisation of agriculture
- Risk assessment for workplaces
- Personal protective equipment
- Professional advice on the safe use of PPPs
- Checking the efficiency of the field sprayer
- Periodic inspection of chemical treatment equipment
- Calibration of chemical treatment equipment
- Contact with plant protection products – Hazards and necessary measures
- Operation and calibration of the fertiliser spreader
- Risks associated with using fertilisers
- Procedures in case of hazardous incidents with fertilisers
- Securing equipment after the season
- Fuel storage facility – organisation and signage
- Leaking fuel storage, fuel-contaminated soil, ‘burnt’ oil, used lubricants, filters, hoses, etc.
- Waste generated on the farm
- Limiting the production of agricultural waste and washings
- Waste suitable for recycling and use in agricultural production
- Agricultural waste not suitable for re-use in agricultural
- Organic fertilisers arising from the production process
- Hazards associated with waste from agricultural chemicals
- Handling packaging of mineral fertilisers and other agricultural inputs
- Handling residues, water contaminated with PPPs, expired products, clothing contaminated with PPPs, lubricants, fuel and fertilisers
- Handling residues, water contaminated with PPPs, expired products, clothing contaminated with PPPs, lubricants, fuel and fertilisers
- Hazardous waste warehouse
- Risk assessment for the waste warehouse
- Units for the disposal of hazardous waste
- Incineration of waste
- Water Management
- Yield-forming water management
- Water retention in an agricultural landscape
- Water sources for irrigation
- Water permit
- Irrigation water – potential risks
- Quality of irrigation water
- Actual crop water requirements depending on development stage, practical crop water needs
- Optimisation of water consumption
- Choice of irrigation system and time of activation
- Rainwater utilisation
- Water treatment
- Water accumulation in the soil depending on the type of soil profile
- Evaporation from soil and plants
- Water in frozen or flooded soil
- Areas of the farm at risk of surface run-off
- Prevention of surface run-off
- Greening zones (grassed) to prevent surface run-off
- Waste water on the farm
- Management of water contaminated with plant protection products, fuel and fertilisers
- Biodiversity
- Rich living environment
- The importance of biodiversity for the functioning of agricultural production
- Links between integrated pest management and biodiversity
- Conservation zones (e.g. Natura 2000) and protected areas and their buffer zones
- Animal and plant habitats
- Restoration of former and creation of new nesting/habitat sites for birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects and other invertebrates
- Abandonment of land of value for beneficial organisms
- Legality of wasteland decommissioning and biodiversity measures
- On-farm biodiversity monitoring
- Positive and negative effects of the presence of identified animals and plants
- Professional environmental and biodiversity advice
- Maintaining / improving biodiversity
- Chemicalisation of agriculture and the protection of biodiversity (e.g. pollinators, aquatic organisms, birds)
- Air and greenhouse gas emissions
- Air and greenhouse gas emissions
- Air pollution caused by agricultural activities
- Energy consumption for agricultural production
- Reducing carbon dioxide production from fuels
- Machine aggregation
- Soil movement
- Renewable energy
- Sites of formation of harmful gases H2S, NH3, SO2 and greenhouse gases CO2, CH4, NOx
- Monitoring and recording of greenhouse gases on the farm
- Emissions of nitrogen compounds due to improper storage of organic fertilisers
- Air purification from livestock buildings
- Optimising the use of energy-intensive products, e.g. nitrogen fertilisers
- Ploughing in of livestock manures and top dressing of liquid organic fertilisers
- Increase in soil bound carbon content
- Air pollution from agricultural chemicals
- Air dustiness
- Market access
- Market access
- Farm budget planning based on market knowledge
- Integration of agricultural risk into production planning
- Crop quality and production value
- Production and storage procedures for crops
- Means of production and agreeing production procedures with the recipient of the products
- Responsibility for the quality and safety of the food produced
- Farm production safety (biological, chemical, physical contamination)
- Critical points for food safety and quality
- Training of employees to ensure quality production
- Documentation of farm operations and input purchases
- Batch production process
- Production certification
- Organisation of product sales
- Negotiation and communication competence
- Working conditions
- Labour laws and regulations concerning employee organisations
- Determination of employees’ working and pay conditions
- Employee compensation
- Employment of young people
- Administrative penalties
- Prevention of discrimination
- Prevention of mobbing
- Individual needs and limitations of employees
- Work-related health issues
- Health insurance
- Employee education
- Employee communication
- Employment of foreigners
- Motivating employees
- Records of disciplinary penalties
- Health and safety
- Occupational health and safety
- Application of labour legislation
- Risk assessment for individual workplaces
- Procedures to deal with adverse events
- Handling of accidents
- Employee health and safety training
- Periodic occupational health examinations
- Release to work
- Pre-work training
- Signs warning workers of hazards
- Working at heights
- Optimising production processes to reduce employee exposure to accidents
- First-aid kit
- First-aid training
- Fire-fighting equipment
- Telephone numbers for emergency services
- Eye washing equipment
- Work and protective clothing and equipment
- Disease prevention
- Personal hygiene, preventive vaccinations and health programmes
- Residence of workers on the farm
- Local Community
- Animal production
- Animal production
- Animal welfare
- The consumer vs. animal welfare
- Elements of well-being and the “List of Five Freedoms”
- Indicators for assessing animal welfare
- Welfare Quality®
- Welfare of poultry
- Welfare of pigs
- Welfare of cattle
- Bio-security in animal husbandry
- Bio-assurance tasks
- Location of the farm
- Technology and personnel hygiene
- Staff hygiene and control of farm visits
- Quarantine
- Control of unwanted animals
- Black and white system security
- Good practices related to bio-security rules:
- Key factors limiting the effectiveness of bio-security programmes
- Treatment of animals
- Principles of antibiotic use in animal husbandry
- Effect of antibiotics
- Problems and risks associated with the use of antibiotics
- Veterinary medicines and principles of their use in the treatment of livestock
- The food chain
- Prevention of antibiotic resistance
- Types of antibiotic resistance
- Causes and mechanisms of antibiotic resistance
- Effects of antibiotic resistance
- Antibiotic therapy in agriculture
- Principles of antibiotic therapy in animal production
- Monitoring antibiotic consumption
- Good practices – reducing the use of antibiotics
- Livestock Need Feed
- The place of animal feeding in a sustainable farm
- Sustainable cattle feeding
- Sustainable feeding of swine
- Sustainable poultry feeding
- Summary