Variety is the spice of life
Probing into the 2018/19 benchmarks The 2018/19 financial year will go down as one of the driest and hottest in recent memory (and the first half of 19/20 isn’t showing ...
Mike Parish at Forum Planet A
In his address to Planet A International Agriculture Forum, held in France in June 2019, Director of Healthy Soils Australia and RCS advisor, Mike Parish spoke of the importance of managing land regeneratively to rebuild the soil carbon sponge and repair the broken hydrological cycle.
Save the Date!
RCS 2020 International Conference July 18 and 19, 2020 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Join us to hear some of the best minds in the world! Once every decade, RCS hosts a ...
Curiosity didn’t kill the cat
The old saying ‘curiosity killed the cat’ originates from the idea that to stay safe, you should do only what’s known. If you follow the normal, accepted practice and don’t ...
When is a drought man-made?
A few months ago I was in southern NSW. A group of us were going out to see a property after lunch, which was about 50 minutes away. Just prior …
Making Decisions | RCS Toolkit Series
Making decisions Good quality decision making is key to good management. In this 2-minute video, David McLean takes us through what we need to make meaningful, confident decisions. Watch more ...
If you can’t see it, you can’t plan to eat it
We, in the RCS network, have been talking a lot in the past few months about matching stocking rate to carrying capacity (Regenerative Grazing Principle number 3) and feed budgeting …
Stop riding the unicorn!
There are two pertinent factors I want to see change in how we run agribusinesses. The first, talked about in my last article, is that we should focus on profit, ...
What is more important, production or profit?
Let me ask you a question: Which is more important, production levels or profit? I bet most people would use their logical reasoning to say that profit is more important. …
Is your ego making you unprofitable?
Did you know that, in agriculture, ego is one of the main causes of businesses being unprofitable? Everyone has an ego. Sometimes it gives us a healthy basis for decision …