Episode 2 – How are the top 25% farming in the sweet spot?
With on-farm inflation, interest rates and a lower payout, what are the top performing dairy farmers doing to find the sweet spot? Editors Anne Lee and Sheryl Haitana delve into the special cost control report in Dairy Exporter Magazine.
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EP 2 - How are the top 25% farming in the sweet spot?
Guests include:
Chris Lewis, BakerAg
Jono Buchly, Headlands Consultancy
Paul Bird, Dairy NZ
Hosts:
Sheryl Haitana, Editor, NZ Dairy Exporter
Anne Lee, Deputy Editor, NZ Dairy Exporter
Sarah Perriam-Lampp, Managing Director, CountryWide Media
With on-farm inflation, interest rates and a lower payout, what are the top performing dairy farmers doing to find the sweet spot?
In the second episode of the The Dairy Exporter Podcast, Editor Sheryl Haitana & Deputy Editor Anne Lee delve into the special report within the November/December issue of the magazine.
Chris Lewis from Baker Ag points out that farming in the sweet spot will see you have resilience to payout, good feed conversion efficiency, low livestock wages and motivated staff which brings you a consistent good result physically and financially.
See the graphs online to see how your farm benchmarks at the NZ Dairy Exporter here. (Subscriber-Only article)
Headlands Consultancy’s Business Manager, Jono Buckley, encourages farmers to see technology such as collars and cow shelters as a feasible investment to farm into the future.
And Anne finishes the episode by celebrating 15 years of Dairy Base with Paul Bird of Diary NZ.
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