Driving profitability per hectare!
dc.contributor.author | Shalloo, Laurence | |
dc.contributor.author | Hanrahan, Liam | |
dc.contributor.author | Ramsbottom, George | |
dc.contributor.author | Horan, Brendan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-23T15:01:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-23T15:01:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-11-23 | |
dc.identifier.citation | 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. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11019/2652 | |
dc.description.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 business | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Dairy Information Booklet;Spring 2018 | |
dc.rights | Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | dairy business | en_US |
dc.subject | resilient business | en_US |
dc.subject | farm efficiency | en_US |
dc.subject | farm productivity | en_US |
dc.subject | increase grass growth | en_US |
dc.subject | increase labour efficiency | en_US |
dc.title | Driving profitability per hectare! | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-11-23T15:01:13Z |
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