MANAGEMENT

In an earlier edition of Progressive Forage, we featured an article that compared a football team to the basics of farm finance. In that analogy, the safety position on a football team was compared to your farm’s equity.

Grazing management requires planning for the future and acting in the present. Planning is integral to success. Set goals for the operation, evaluate current assets, and then sketch out a plan to reach your goals.

For the November issue, I wrote an article about the Norfolk Four Course: Turnips and clovers in revolution and how it helped increase agricultural production and made possible the first sustained population growth in England.

Discussions about change happen all the time. How do we plan for it? What should we say about it? How do we lead our team through it? Will it be seen as positive or negative?

Decision-making in a farm business is a daily occurrence. Some of these decisions can significantly impact the profitability of your farm business.

The foundation of all ruminant diets is forage. The ruminant digestive system cannot function correctly without forage.