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Utilize strategic thinking to achieve better business outcomes for your farm

Strategic thinking involves determining the farm's strategic vision, prioritizing actions to achieve the desired outcome and setting aside time regularly to focus on the strategy.

September 29, 2022

Stephanie Plaster

As business owners, managers and employees, our days are full of endless decisions and actions that affect the health, success and future of ourselves and our businesses.

What are you doing to find and empower the L6 on your farm?

The L6 – or Level 6 – is the person six levels down from the top who knows what you badly need to know. How could the information this person or people are collecting be beneficial to your business?

August 22, 2022

Amy Throndsen

In the “Six Levels Down” episode of the Against the Rules podcast, host Michael Lewis followed healthcare provider Athenahealth’s journey to fixing one of their biggest problems – getting insurance companies to pay their bills – and in the process, discovered the power of the L6.

How successful businesses define ownership versus management: Rights, responsibilities and benefits

June 1, 2022

Jay Joy

There’s an old saying: “Good fences make good neighbors.” In the case of businesses, I’d modify that old nugget of wisdom slightly to say: “Good boundaries make for good businesses.”

‘If you want good employees, be a good employer’: Quality feedback

May 24, 2022

Bob Milligan

Last month, we embarked on a series of articles around the theme “If you want good employees, be a good employer.” I suggested that a great way to address the current employment challenge is to implement a performance improvement system.

Better communication, less confusion

March 11, 2022

Tim Schaefer

Are you sometimes left wondering if your employees understand the farm’s priorities and goals? Do your employees ever feel they get conflicting messages and wonder, “What does the boss want?”

Hoenhorst Farms multiplies its success with a methodical management approach

February 11, 2022

Emma Ohirko

Imagine you have the power to monitor every aspect of your farm business; profitability, production, animal health, culling, reproductive success is all there, and it’s divided into specific metrics to help paint a picture of where your farm’s problems may lie.

Ask these 5 questions to build employee loyalty and boost performance

September 17, 2021

Shaun Hardtke

They say the most valuable, yet free, investment is to recognize and show appreciation to your employees. This cannot be truer now with our struggles to retain good people, let alone find anyone to fill our positions on our dairies.

Train your feeding team

September 15, 2021

Travis Thayer

Change is hard – especially for cows, who are creatures of habit even more than we are. Any changes in a cow’s routine can quickly add up to compromise her health and performance.

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Utilize strategic thinking to achieve better business outcomes for your farm

What are you doing to find and empower the L6 on your farm?

How successful businesses define ownership versus management: Rights, responsibilities and benefits

‘If you want good employees, be a good employer’: Quality feedback

Better communication, less confusion

Hoenhorst Farms multiplies its success with a methodical management approach

Ask these 5 questions to build employee loyalty and boost performance

Train your feeding team

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Preweaned calf rumen development: How it shapes heifer growth and future milk production

How rising temperatures are affecting dairy cow fertility in Canada

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