Lean on our Farm
Follow our farm's lean journey, see what we are doing, and learn about how lean thinking and tools can help your farming business. Lean can help every type of farmer and grower. We have started our 2 Minute LeanFarm videos to give farmers a practical sense of some of the lean tools and principles and how to apply them. These are done randomly based on what we are doing on our farm. Watch our videos or read our blog posts below to learn more.
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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 […]
Lean Visual Management of calves
Lean Farming and Visualisation A key lean tool is visual management. This is about having real time, live information available and visual for the team to use to manage a process or area. This helps anyone immediately see what is happening and make real time decisions based on actual data. It also helps to immediately […]
Lean tools for bulls
I have been running my LeanFarm training with farmers in Tasmania over the last few weeks and have come across some great examples of simple lean tools applied on farm to make life easier, more efficient, safer and prevent frustrating problems. Visualisation is a simple lean tool that can make your farm more productive. One […]
Safe Farm – lean tools will make a safer farm
Safe Farm using Lean: A Lean Farm is also a Safe Farm. Lean tools such a Visualisation and 5S can significantly help to improve safety on your farm. Our team has been working on improving our safety processes. We had a session about all hazards on farm and it really reinforced how dangerous our farms […]
Lean Dairy Farm – Designing a Lean Dairy Shed/ Milking Parlour
A lean dairy farm also needs a lean dairy shed or milking parlour. Is your dairy shed or facilities a lean dairy shed? Are you thinking about building a new dairy shed and want to incorporate lean thinking into your shed design? I have been talking to a farmer in NZ that is in this […]
Visualisation key to a lean farm
One of the key improvements we are making on our farm is the introduction of a lean tool called visualisation. This is about making things easy to understand using visual signs, symbols, colours, labels and so on. Visualisation is all around us in our everyday life. It helps us to grasp a situation quickly and […]
The Lean Dairy Farm available in bookstores now
It was very exciting to see my new book in bookstores yesterday!!. The book is now available in all Paperplus and Whitcoulls stores in New Zealand and all Dymocks stores in Australia. Also available online through all major booksellers. Visit your local bookstore to grab a copy. Visit www.theleandairyfarm.com for more info.
Employee Engagement on Farm – Annual Employee Survey
People are one of the most important assets that you will have on farm. The success and contribution your people will add to your business is determined on how well you empower them and build engagement and motivation. Good leaders and employee support mechanisms and systems can help a business bring out the best from […]
The Lean Dairy Farm – book out now
After developing the successful LeanFarm program (www.leanfarm.nz) – a lean training program tailored specifically for dairy farmers in 2016, I am incredibly excited to release my book The Lean Dairy Farm to the world. The book is for every farmer globally who wants to use proven lean principles to improve their farming business, eliminating waste […]
Protecting our cows from the heat
This isn’t exactly a “lean” thing, but it is about adapting your processes to ensure that you are doing what’s best for your animals and also getting better results for the farm. In this hot weather, we have identified and cordoned off our shady paddocks. We have shifted our milking times by an hour and […]
Monthly Farm Walk Audit digitalised!
A couple of weeks ago was our scheduled monthly farm walk for January. This time we trialled going digital for our audit rather than using the paper check sheet. We have recently started using FarmIQ on our farm and are slowly integrating more and more features onto the farm. One of them is the ability […]
Going digital on a Lean farm
On our farm we are also trying to embrace more and more technology and become more digitalised. We have installed a large tv screen in our main office on the wall. We now use it for all our team presentations, monthly big picture breakfasts, and weekly CI sessions. It has been brilliant as we can […]
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