Clear, simple systems to help you manage tasks and people on your farm can help with business efficiency and productivity.
An aspect that is commonly spoken about in the dairy industry is the cost and efficiency of labour, not to mention availability, of skilled labour.
In NSW labour total costs (paid and owner operator or imputed labour) on average, make up around 25% of farm operating costs according to our NSW DFMP data. This represents a cost of around $2.10/kgMS. In terms of efficiency, we are looking at, on average around just under 40,000kgMS/FTE. Obviously, there are farms that are much more efficient than this and those that are less efficient. And there are many factors that drive this.
Today my guest is James McRae, a farmer who has adopted a system or style of management on his farm that helps him address time and resource efficiency. It is called Lean Management.
Useful resources related to this podcast:
2 Second Lean (Paul Akers)
GembaDocs app - for creating SOP’s & Kanban cards. It saves a lot of time!
YouTube:
Books:
The Lean Dairy Farm - Jana & Mat Hocken
Lean in Agriculture - Nielsen & Pejstrup
2 Second Lean - Paul Akers
The Toyota Way - Jeffrey Liker
This podcast is an initiative of the NSW DPI Dairy Business Advisory Unit
It is brought to you in partnership the Hunter Local Land Services
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The information discussed in this podcast are for informative and educational purposes only and do not constitute advice.
