RCS Chairman, David McLean, explores what the change in season means for crop and livestock producers and provides some points to consider in the future.
The Power of Early Weaning
In any breeding herd or flock, the timing of weaning is a major determinant of profit. Weaning is our major tool to maintain body condition score (BCS) on our females. …
Business Resilience and Drought
Rural operations are a function of how well we manage four key components: our people, our land, our production and our business. Resilience is defined as, “the capacity to recover quickly …
Opportunities in the Season for Graziers: Northern Update
We are experiencing a type of season that happens fairly regularly. If you have been lucky enough to get rain over the recent growing season, it is now turning from …
Opportunities in the Season for Graziers: Southern Update
We are now in need of an autumn break. For many people this comes after a light spring and a light summer. The thing that is essential to watch heading …
Walk the Talk
For me, it is a huge privilege and honour to work closely with leading producers across Australia. I recently visited Richard and Victoria Moffatt at “Muldoon”, north of Rockhampton in …
Current nutritional circumstances in Northern and Southern Australia
In an El Nino year, the words of Kenny Rogers “The Gambler”, are worth putting in the context of a livestock business. You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, know when to walk away and know when to run, you never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table, there’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s done…
Coming Soon – Grazing Chart in the cloud!
Don’t want to be overstocked again? RCS has been working closely with Maia Technology in their development of MaiaGrazing, a web based grazing decision support tool to assist graziers in always matching their stocking rates to carrying capacity.
FREE Keep In Touch Day – Dysart, QLD
We invite you to join David McLean and James Barnet on Thursday 9th July 2015 at the ‘Leichhardt Station’ Dysart Keep In Touch (KIT) day. KIT days are an opportunity ...
It’s time to challenge your carrying capacity benchmark
In 2008, when I visited the McLaughlins for an on-farm consult, I told them that they needed to reduce their carrying capacity benchmark. To their credit, they took a leap ...