Mid West US Dairy Study Tour
The study tour of Mid West United States is exciting and shows the challenges of running a profitable
dairy business in a continental climate. It also explores this intense US Dairy Industry and helps
greatly in understanding the sleeping giant which is now the second largest exporter of milk in the world.
It also shows how grass based farming can be adapted to all conditions and how good business and people
management skills can grow a successful dairy farm business in challenging conditions.
Tour Focus
Business skills and strategic planning • Discussion with key people • Managing debt during rapid expansionExpansion
• Key elements to have in place • Key relationships to develop • Project management when developing farmStaff
• Create a good working environment • Build a high performing teamSticking to core principles
• Panic slowly • Lessons and recommendationsYou will be meeting people who have successfully
dealt with
• Expansion • Climate challenges (Missouri is more challenging than Ireland and the UK) • Created high performing teams • Project management when developing farms • Excellent business skillsNo compromise on core farming principles, whatever the challenges or conditions!
Our International Farm Tours are a fantastic opportunity to expose yourself to the
world's top performing and knowledgeable dairy farmers.
New Zealand Dairy Study Tour
The lessons learnt on a New Zealand farm study tour can create a lifetime platform for success in your farming business. What you learn and experience on an NZ farm tour•
Total clarity on what simple, high-profit, resilient systems really means
•
Basic husbandry with animals when farming at scale + grass management
•
Strong emphasis on managing people, and teams of people
•
Developing people for high-level management
•
Money, Budgets, Banks, Cost Control
•
How does one best handle using leverage safely and effectively?
•
Governance, Managing risk, Scenario planning
•
Simplifying systems as herds size grow
•
Project management/infrastructure - NZ strong in this area
•
Organisation of work on farms - NZ average 15-16 hours/cow. We visit one manager who is close to half that
•
Joint venture farming
•
Share milking, 50-50, lower order share milking, contract milking
•
What things need constant monitoring in real time + immediate action - if necessary?
Colin Glass -Dairy Holdings
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Mid West US Dairy Study Tour
The study tour of Mid West United States is exciting and shows the challenges
of running a profitable dairy business in a continental climate. It also explores
this intense US Dairy Industry and helps greatly in understanding the sleeping
giant which is now the second largest exporter of milk in the world.
It also shows how grass based farming can be adapted to all conditions and
how good business and people management skills can grow a successful dairy
farm business in challenging conditions.
No compromise on core farming principles, whatever the
challenges or conditions!
Tour Focus
Business skills and strategic planning • Discussion with key people • Managing debt during rapid expansionExpansion
• Key elements to have in place • Key relationships to develop • Project management when developing farmStaff
• Create a good working environment • Build a high performing teamSticking to core principles
• Panic slowly Lessons and recommendationsYou will be meeting people who have successfully
dealt with
• Expansion • Climate challenges (Missouri is more challenging than Ireland and the UK) • Created high performing teams • Project management when developing farms • Excellent business skills
Positive Farmers
International Farm Tours
Our International Farm Tours are a fantastic opportunity to expose yourself to
the world's top performing and knowledgeable dairy farmers.
New Zealand Dairy Study Tour
The lessons learnt on a New Zealand farm study tour can create a lifetime platform for success in your farming business. What you learn and experience on an NZ farm tour•
Total clarity on what simple, high-profit, resilient systems really means
•
Basic husbandry with animals when farming at scale + grass management
•
Strong emphasis on managing people, + teams of people
•
Developing people for high-level management
•
Money, Budgets, Banks, Cost Control
•
How does one best handle using leverage safely and effectively?
•
Governance, Managing risk, Scenario planning
•
Simplifying systems as herds size grow
•
Project management/infrastructure - NZ strong in this area
•
Organisation of work on farms - NZ average 15-16 hours/cow.
We visit one manager who is close to half that
•
Joint venture farming
•
Share milking, 50-50, lower order share milking, contract milking
•
What things need constant monitoring in real time + immediate action
- if necessary?
Mid West US Dairy Study
Tour
The study tour of Mid West United
States is exciting and shows the
challenges of running a profitable
dairy business in a continental
climate.
New Zealand Dairy Study Tour
The lessons learnt on a New Zealand farm study tour can create a lifetime platform for success in your farming business.International Farm Tours
It also shows how grass based farming can be
adapted to all conditions and how good
business and people management skills can
grow a successful dairy farm business in
challenging conditions.
No compromise on core farming
principles, whatever the challenges
or conditions!
Tour Focus
Business skills and strategic planning • Discussion with key people • Managing debt during rapid expansionExpansion
• Key elements to have in place • Key relationships to develop • Project management when developing farmStaff
• Create a good working environment • Build a high performing teamSticking to core principles
• Panic slowlyYou will be meeting people who have
successfully dealt with
• Expansion • Climate challenges (Missouri is more challenging than Ireland and the UK) • Created high performing teams • Project management when developing farms • Excellent business skills
