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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 7379163" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>I just wanted to make the boss more money, and help sort out his herd's problems.</p><p></p><p>The year I started was a low payout year, so going in we had the discussion that we couldn't really afford to "waste much"... looking at his herd, well, McDonalds was really missing out on about 80 cows (old, udders, flat feet, 3 titters etc) but then it was revealed we were contracted to use 260T of wheat and he expected to use maybe 100T of urea </p><p></p><p><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤯" title="Exploding head :exploding_head:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f92f.png" data-shortname=":exploding_head:" /></p><p></p><p>and that his main goal was to get 400kgMS/cow and this would help him buy back all the land his family once owned in the district</p><p></p><p><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤯" title="Exploding head :exploding_head:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f92f.png" data-shortname=":exploding_head:" /></p><p></p><p>so he'd just bought another 40ha and another 80 cows and employed another man as part of the plan, I think his farm advisor had sussed him out very quickly and sold him a system. But you could see how precarious it was, because a dry summer leaves a dirty great hole in the earnings and the costs are pretty much set going in, combined with a 30% reduction in revenue anyway then it looked as if only the staff and bank were going to be making money (c. 5% interest rates).</p><p></p><p>I reckoned that was a sh!t setup and I told him I would make him more money than I cost him, and made him 5x my salary... and pretty much all of it was down to not spending money lighting fires and spending more money putting them out again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 7379163, member: 63856"] I just wanted to make the boss more money, and help sort out his herd's problems. The year I started was a low payout year, so going in we had the discussion that we couldn't really afford to "waste much"... looking at his herd, well, McDonalds was really missing out on about 80 cows (old, udders, flat feet, 3 titters etc) but then it was revealed we were contracted to use 260T of wheat and he expected to use maybe 100T of urea 🤯 and that his main goal was to get 400kgMS/cow and this would help him buy back all the land his family once owned in the district 🤯 so he'd just bought another 40ha and another 80 cows and employed another man as part of the plan, I think his farm advisor had sussed him out very quickly and sold him a system. But you could see how precarious it was, because a dry summer leaves a dirty great hole in the earnings and the costs are pretty much set going in, combined with a 30% reduction in revenue anyway then it looked as if only the staff and bank were going to be making money (c. 5% interest rates). I reckoned that was a sh!t setup and I told him I would make him more money than I cost him, and made him 5x my salary... and pretty much all of it was down to not spending money lighting fires and spending more money putting them out again. [/QUOTE]
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