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 for the day This is our agenda for this year’s strategy day that we held a couple of weeks ago. Exceptional in the Detail - our theme This year our theme was “Exceptional in the Detail”. We are … [Read more...]
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 good flow hard. We can't afford to build fancy new sheds to make life easier, but we can think a bit outside the box to achieve what we need. A big part of calving is all the motion that happens driving … [Read more...]
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 forward. On our farm we hold an annual strategy day every year with the whole team. We ran this on Friday followed by our end of season team event. During our … [Read more...]