Judy Pownall brings a strong blend of practical agricultural experience, business acumen, and educational leadership to her facilitation work. Together with her
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Australian farmers are an important sector of the population who are vulnerable to poor well-being.
Animal Frontiers is the third most-cited journal in agriculture, dairy, and animal science.
Discover the benefits of using time controlled grazing and how to manage livestock effectively.
To make the most of our agricultural farms, we must appreciate the power of photosynthesis. Learn about nature’s relentless dedication to growing.
Discover how to use the RCS Grazing Chart tool to improve your grazing management and become a professional, proactive decision-maker.
It’s crucial that cattle farmers understand cattle bloat. Learn the causes, symptoms and treatment techniques to keep it at bay.
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There is a myth that if you move towards management practices that regenerate the land, you will affect your business profitability.
So many farmers and producers take great personal pride in the natural assets on their farms. They observe how, under their management, these natural values are improving, maturing and becoming more valuable – greater diversity of plants and animals, clearer water in creeks and dams, healthier soils with increasing levels of organic matter, carbon and soil animal life.
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Judy Pownall brings a strong blend of practical agricultural experience, business acumen, and educational leadership to her facilitation work. Together with her
Any RCS graduate will know the importance of grazing principle #2: Plants need adequate rest. Without being given a chance to recover after grazing, our desirable grasses will lose root vigour, respond slower, and, across time, be replaced by less desirable plants. However, where else should we be considering incorporating rest into our businesses?
We will probe into labour efficiency by analysing the Gross Product per Full Time Equivalent (GP $/FTE) from our FarmEye platform, which now provides rolling analytics. I’ve found GP $/FTE to be the more useful indication of labour efficiency (compared to, say, animal units per FTE), as it draws attention to the value being generated from each labour unit.
Move over John Wayne … RCS has its own cowboy hero — a man who needs no introduction to many of you: Raymond Stacey.
We will probe into the ever-powerful cost of production (COP) metric from our FarmEye platform, which now provides rolling analytics. COP is possibly the best number you can look at to assess how resilient your business might be to the next cyclical downturn in markets, seasons or production. Another factor that makes it so useful is that market price changes don’t impact the calculation.
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