Recently I was going through all my notes from my Toyota days and I re-discovered this fabulous quote from my early years with Toyota back in 2003! I have shared this quote already on a previous post here, but it is so important that I am talking about it once more and want to […]
2024 is here : we have some big goals this year
And 2024 is upon us! Happy New Year (ok I am about a month late)! We have just finished the long summer school holidays last week so finally catching up on work!! And social media is definitely not my strong point! We have lots of exciting things planned this year! Mat and I always start […]
Our Annual Strategy Day 2023
I have had many requests to dive into more detail on our annual team strategy day. Each year we have a specific theme for our strategy day. We use a standard template each year with some standard content and then there are new agenda items also that are added based on the theme. The Agenda […]
Streamlining our calf feeding process to reduce time and motion
We are almost at the end of calving now (yes was suppose to post this a while back!) but this season we made some big changes in our journey to streamline our calving process and make it easier each year. Like many old farms, ours has infrastructure all over the place and this makes creating […]
A Lean Farm is a strategic farm
Lean isn’t just about the tools like 5S, Visualisation and Standard Work. Importantly lean starts with the high level business strategy and how a farm’s goals are cascaded through the business into tangible actions for the whole team. This ensures that goals don’t just stay goals but can be practically achieved to take your farm […]