MANAGEMENT

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.

In 2017, the average total noncapital living expenses of 1,219 farm families enrolled in the Illinois Farm Business Farm Management Association (FBFM) was $79,798 – or $6,650 a month for each family. This average was 3.7 percent higher than in 2016.