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The Lean Dairy Farm

Eliminate Waste, Save Time, Cut Costs - Creating a More Productive, Profitable and Higher Quality Farm
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The Lean Dairy Farm by Jana Hocken explores how the principles of lean manufacturing can be applied to dairy farming. It provides practical guidance for farmers on improving efficiency, reducing waste, and increasing profitability, while maintaining high-quality standards in milk production. The book combines industry insights with real-world examples to help modernise agricultural practices through lean methodologies in the science and nature category.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in innovative approaches to agriculture, especially in making dairy farming more efficient and sustainable. It combines principles of lean management with practical insights into dairy operations, offering valuable strategies for improving productivity and reducing waste. Perfect for those passionate about integrating business efficiency within the realm of science and nature.

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The Lean Dairy Farm

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Make your farm better, smarter, and more productive

The Lean method is revolutionising farming globally with its proven approach for reducing waste, improving productivity, and sustaining profits. In The Lean Dairy Farm, dairy farmer and Lean consultant Jana Hocken explains why this approach is essential to every dairy farm and how to apply these tools, practices, and principles to your dairy operation.

The Lean Dairy Farm helps reduce the common problems and stressors faced by farmers every day: long work hours, high staff turnovers, repeat problems, breakdowns, wastage, safety, and high costs. Using her own family’s dairy farm as a case study, Jana provides insight into how the Lean approach applies to farming, introduces practical tools to help you improve efficiency and reduce waste, and shows you how to create a farm culture that supports Lean thinking.

Even if Lean is entirely new to you, this book offers a simple blueprint for applying its principles and practices to improve your farm.

  • Quickly make use of basic Lean concepts on your farm
  • Identify and eliminate waste in farm processes
  • Organise your farm effectively to improve productivity
  • Standardise your processes to do everything right the first time
  • Develop an engaged, high performing team

If you want a more efficient, profitable, and robust dairy farm, The Lean Dairy Farm is for you.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780730368410

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 February 2019

Country: Australia

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd

Contributors:

  • With Mat Hocken

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 2.0mm

Width: 15.0mm

Height: 23.0mm

Weight: 595g

Pages: 432

About the Author

JANA HOCKEN is a veteran Lean business consultant with a background in Toyota, who has assisted hundreds of companies across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, America and Europe. She has been a speaker at numerous events and in 2017 developed the successful LeanFarm training program specifically for farmers.

MAT HOCKEN is a 4th generation farmer and 2017 Nuffield scholar. As well as embracing Lean on the farm, Mat aims to inspire farmer-led innovation, through projects such as The Rural Innovation Lab and FarmCave.

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