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Better Farming Better Business Better Living
POSITIVE FARMERS NZ FARM STUDY TOURS
With our large network of trusted contacts worldwide - industry leaders, advisor’s and top performing dairy farmers, we take great care to
formulate programmes that address the current and future needs of dairy farmers.
The lessons learnt on a New Zealand farm study tour can create a lifetime platform for
success in your farming business.
Get inspired and unlock your business potential
What you learn and experience
•
Total clarity on what simple,high profit, resilient systems really means
•
Basic husbandry with animals when farming at scale + grass management
•
Strong emphasis on managing people, teams of people
•
Developing people for high level management
•
Money, Budgets, Banks, Cost control
•
How does one best handle using leverage safely and effectively?
•
How do you control spending when you have multiple units
•
Being compliant when you are farming at scale with ever tightening regulation
•
Governance, Managing risk, Scenario planning
•
Simplifying systems as herds grow
•
Project management / infrastructure - NZ really strong in this area
•
Organisation of work on farms
-NZ average 15 – 16 hours/cow. Look at one manager who is close to half that
•
Joint venture farming
-Share milking, 50-50, lower order share milking, contract milking
•
What are the maybe 6 things that need constant monitoring in real time + immediate action - if necessary
Anticipate the challenges facing Irish and UK dairy farmers over next 5-10 years and seeing these same
challenges being effectively managed on top NZ farms.
Mid West US Dairy Study Tour
The study tour of Mid West United States is exciting and shows the challenges of running a profitable dairy business in a continental climate. It also explores this intense US Dairy Industry and helps greatly in understanding the sleeping giant which is now the second largest exporter of milk in the world. It also shows how grass based farming can be adapted to all conditions and how good business and people management skills can grow a successful dairy farm business in challenging conditions.
FOCUSED FARM STUDY TOURS
See expansion
At its Best
Tour Focus
•
Business skills and strategic planning
o Discussion with key people o Managing debt during rapid expansion•
Expansion
o Key elements to have in place o Key relationships to develop o Project management when developing farms•
Staff
o Create a good working environment o Build a high performing team•
Sticking to core principles
o Panic slowly o Lessons and recommendationsYou will be meeting people who have successfully
dealt with
•
Expansion
•
Climate challenges (Missouri is more challenging
than Ireland and the UK)
•
Created high performing teams
•
Project management when developing farms
•
Excellent business skills
No compromise on core farming principles,
whatever the challenges or conditions!
FARM VISITS
to the top 1% of high performing NZ dairy farmers
+ Special Guests
SIMPLE - LOW COST, PROFITABLE, GRASS BASED SYSTEMS
Positive Farmers, Cork, Ireland
Open; Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm
Telephone; 353 87 6457987
Email: positivefarmers@gmail.com
With our large network of trusted contacts worldwide - industry
leaders, advisor’s and top performing dairy farmers, we take great
care to formulate programmes that address the current and future
needs of dairy farmers.
Mid West US Dairy Study Tour
This study tour of Mid West United States is exciting and shows the challenges of running a profitable dairy business in a continental climate. It also explores this intense US dairy industry and helps greatly in understanding the sleeping giant which is now the second largest exporter of milk in the world. It also shows how grass based farming can be adapted to all conditions and how good business and people management skills can grow a successful dairy farm business in challenging conditions.
The lessons learnt on a New Zealand farm
study tour can create a lifetime platform for
success in your farming business.
POSITIVE FARMERS NZ FARM STUDY TOURS
Get inspired and unlock your business potential
Anticipate the challenges facing Irish and UK dairy
farmers over next 5-10 years and seeing these same
challenges being effectively managed on
top NZ farms.
What you learn and experience
•
Total clarity on what simple,high profit, resilient systems
really means
•
Basic husbandry with animals when farming at scale
+ grass management
•
Strong emphasis on managing people, teams of people
•
Developing people for high level management
•
Money, Budgets, Banks, Cost control
•
How does one best handle using leverage safely and effectively?
•
How do you control spending when you have multiple units
•
Being compliant when you are farming at scale with ever
tightening regulation
•
Governance, Managing risk, Scenario planning
•
Simplifying systems as herds grow
•
Joint venture farming
-Share milking, 50-50, lower order share milking, contract
milking
•
Organisation of work on farms
-NZ average 15 – 16 hours/cow. Look at one manager who is
close to half that
•
Project management / infrastructure - NZ really strong in this
area
•
What are the maybe 6 things that need constant monitoring in
real time + immediate action - if necessary
FARM VISITS
to the top 1% of high performing NZ dairy farmers
+ Special Guests
FOCUSED FARM STUDY TOURS
You will be meeting people who have successfully dealt
with
•
Expansion
•
Climate challenges (Missouri is more challenging than
Ireland and the UK)
•
Created high performing teams
•
Project management when developing farms
•
Excellent business skills
No compromise on core farming principles, whatever the
challenges or conditions!
SIMPLE - LOW COST, PROFITABLE, GRASS BASED SYSTEMS
Tour Focus
•
Business skills and strategic planning
o Discussion with key people o Managing debt during rapid expansion•
Expansion
o Key elements to have in place o Key relationships to develop o Project management when developing farms•
Staff
o Create a good working environment o Build a high performing team•
Sticking to core principles
o Panic slowly o Lessons and recommendations
See expansion
At its Best
Mid West US Dairy Study Tour
Better Farming Better Business Better Living
353 87 6457987
Open; Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm
