Indigenous GrazingforProfit™

During an interactive four day program, all participants will learn to ‘understand the whole’ of what will determine if their business is still around for the next generation. We completely change our language, teaching content and delivery styles for the audience. After every program we learn and adapt to ensure the Indigenous GFP creates the same life changing outcomes the full GrazingforProfit™ has for decades. The course covers four key areas: People, Business, Land and Livestock.

People

Working with people
Learn about the two worlds we deal with and how to manage it. Where does community governance fit into the picture and what do we actually have to do?

Vision and goal setting
Define where you want to go with life personally and as a business and learn simple, effective methods of achieving them. You will develop strategies to overcome the constraints that may be holding you back. Listen to examples of powerful visions and what impact they’ve had on the world.

Management effectiveness
It is possible to be 100% efficient but zero percent effective. We’ll introduce you to management effectiveness; improve your decision-making processes; and give you tools to achieve your goals. Learn about paradigms and which ones are affecting your day to day life.

Health
The most important resource in any operation is the people! In this section we talk about the brutal truth of human health statistics and what the participants can do to create a healthier version of themselves.

Time management
You will take away the key principles to manage your time.

Business

The money story
Where does money come from and where does it go for you, your business and the government. You will learn the three secrets to improving profit in any business, and then learn how to apply the three secrets to eliminate dead wood from your operation, but firstly we must understand the money tracks (money flows).

Managing the money
Understand what a business is and exactly who owns it. Step by step learn how to construct a budget. More importantly understand ‘why’ to have a budget and how to use it in the business.   Get to know what to plan, when, why and how to use it. With other members of your mob conduct a self-audit to see how you are going.

Land

The ecological pie
As farmers and graziers, we get three of our raw materials for nothing. Sunlight, rainfall and ecosystem services are provided to us by Mother Nature. Learn how to harness these to improve ecosystem health, reduce costs, increase production and increase profit. Unwrap the mystery of Carbon to understand exactly what it means in your business.

Another common breakthrough for graduates is to understand (in simple terms) how grass grows and how we influence that growth as managers.

Six principles of regenerative grazing
No matter what landscape you graze animals on, these principles apply you! A major revision of the principles in early 2015 has transformed the way attendees at our courses look at how they manage their land. How you apply these principles will be different for everyone depending on their personal goals and circumstances. Extensive operations will apply them in one way, intensive operations will apply them another, however just like the principle of gravity the principles still work! These basic principles behind regenerative grazing have been known for centuries. The last century has provided us with the scientific knowledge and practical experience/outcomes to understand how to benefit from using the livestock to improve pasture and soil. The RCS Team have visited thousands of farms and reviewed numerous research papers to develop these principles over the past 30 years which dovetail with your new understanding of the ecological pie.

Grazing chart
The most powerful tool you will take away from the GrazingforProfit™ School is the grazing chart. It has the capacity to pay for the School ten times over, every year. It is our best-kept secret.

Physical planning
There are a few basic principles that could save you a great deal of sweat, anxiety and money. Thousands of farmers have made these decisions before and now you can learn from their experiences. It will be worth tens-of-thousands of dollars to you.

Drought
Develop your own drought management plan, which will help you prepare for, manage and recover the four key elements of drought. Our goal is for you to have your land and livestock in such condition that one would not suspect any deterioration in season. You’ll learn strategies that farmers on three continents have used successfully for decades.

Livestock

Practical management
As a group work step by step through a muster to determine what happens, what is needed and when, who do we need to talk to.

Learn what the responsibilities are for animal health and welfare and how to make sure the animals are remain healthy and your team doesn’t face legal proceedings!

Nutrition principles
High animal performance is a direct consequence of nutrition. At the school you will learn the basics of rumen function and when and how to use protein and mineral supplements. Our focus is on increasing the gross margin of livestock rather than just production.

Reproduction principles
The nine reproduction principles have evolved from practical experience over the last four decades. Applying these principles will increase the gross margin of breeding stock.

Managing livestock for profit
There are six key areas of concern for profitable animal production, which you will learn. Within grazing management there are a further six mistakes to avoid. Take away the knowledge to avoid the mistakes that others have learnt from.