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dairy businessresilient business
farm efficiency
farm productivity
increase grass growth
increase labour efficiency
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Shalloo, Laurence, et al. "Driving profitability per hectare." Proceedings of the Irish Grassland Association dairy conference’, Cork, Ireland. Available at www. irishgrasslands. com [Verified 10 September 2018]. 2018.Abstract
Summary • A resilient dairy business will be sustainable to survive milk price drops while being very profitable when milk price is high, while being sustainable across all of the sustainability indicators. • The term resilient means able to “recover, respond, deal, withstand” different internal and external challenges that may manifest themselves within the farm business from time to time. • There is significant potential to increase efficiency and productivity at farm level when compared with the average farm nationally. • The focus at farm level must be about increasing grass growth and utilisation and converting that feed to milk solids sales in as low a cost as possible. • Increasing labour efficiency by operating more streamlined work practices, using contractors and contract rearing of heifers will have a major impact on labour cost – farm labour requirements, ultimately affecting the efficiency of the overall businessCollections
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