Treat your cows like Queens!
How are your cows and heifers performing? Fat? Full milked up udders? Great calves at foot? With a fantastic season, “too much feed” and wonderful conditions, they should be in perfect condition. So, are they? Will they stay that way? And anyway, what is perfect? If they are “perfect” right now that’s wonderful, but don’t forget about them. Too often they get forgotten about, especially the good old trusty ones. The ones that give and give, year in and year out. Once calves a
We can be better than just benchmarking!
Is benchmarking leading to mediocrity in our livestock industry? In my opinion it is. Firstly it is actually just comparative analysis, and doesn’t provide “benchmarks” to aim for, just indications of what others are achieving. In my opinion, targets should be set based on what is possible, not what others are doing. For those lovers of benchmarking amongst you, preparing to launch at me, let me qualify all of this first. I quite like benchmarking for comparing gross marg
Don't stuff it up!
What a start to season! For our area it has to be at least one of the best, if not the best, in my lifetime. And what result will that most likely produce?????? Complacency. Everything is easy isn’t it (sorry croppers, I know it isn’t for you right now trying to get back onto wet paddocks). Too easy perhaps, and a chance to just drift through the year, rather than really capitalise on it. Keep a close eye on stock just as you would in a tough year. Condition score, energ
