The Lean Dairy Farm

The Lean Dairy Farm

Author: Jana Hocken

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2019-02-18

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0730368424

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Make your farm better, smarter, and more productive The Lean method is revolutionising farming globally with its proven approach for reducing waste, improving productivity and sustaining profits.In The Lean Dairy Farm, dairy farmer and Lean consultant Jana Hocken explains why this approach is essential to every dairy farm and how to apply these tools, practices and principles to your dairy operation. The Lean Dairy Farm helps reduce the common problems and stressors faced by farmers every day: long work hours, high staff turnovers, repeat problems, breakdowns, wastage, safety and high costs. Using her own family’s dairy farm as a case study, Jana provides insight into how the Lean approach applies to farming, introduces practical tools to help you improve efficiency and reduce waste, and shows you how to create a farm culture that supports Lean thinking. Even if Lean is entirely new to you, this book offers a simple blueprint for applying its principles and practices to improve your farm. Quickly make use of basic Lean concepts on your farm Identify and eliminate waste in farm processes Organise your farm effectively to improve productivity Standardise your processes to do everything right the first time Develop an engaged, high performing team If you want a more efficient, profitable and robust dairy farm, The Lean Dairy Farm is for you.


Australian Agriculture

Australian Agriculture

Author: Ted Henzell

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0643993428

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Focusing on the technologies that the farmers and graziers actually used, this book follows the history of each of the major commodities of groups of commodities to the end of the 20th century, grain crops, sheep and wool, beef and dairy, wine and others. Issues facing agriculture as it enters the 21st century are also discussed.


The Pastoral Industries of Australia: Practice and Technology of Sheep and Cattle Production

The Pastoral Industries of Australia: Practice and Technology of Sheep and Cattle Production

Author: O. B. Williams

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13:

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Textbook on the technology and practice of sheep and cattle production under grazing conditions in Australia - presents historical background, and covers the wool industry, the meat industries, the dairy industry, feed production, reproduction and genetic improvement, climate, animal production, animal diseases, agricultural management and marketing, etc. Diagrams, references and statistical tables.