Farm Tender Daily

Farm Tender Daily - All the news from Friday, the 16th of February, 2024.

By Dwain Duxson - Click here to go to the Farmer Tender website.

14 Days to go - Our FarmTender2024 - Entrepreneurs in Farming event is not far away. Click here for more info. See the media release here. Read some of the questions we are going to ask Danny Thomas, Rob Dawes, Claire Booth and Andrew Weidemann.

Back to the books - I listened to a podcast the other day that I reckon every Farmer should listen to. It was on David Cornish's AgTalk Podcast, and it featured the very impressive John Francis, a consultant at Agrista. You can listen to the podcast here. 

It's a livestock-focused interview, but there are takeaways for all Farmers. With some cracking years for the Sheep and Cattle guys, John makes a good point of how we can become complacent and a little bit lazy when things are good, and then when the downturn came, it slapped us in the face.

He suggests it's high time to get back into the office and focus on the numbers again and to work out the cost of production to make sure you keep your head above water in this high-cost environment.

John puts a big emphasis on systems, and he says that all of his top-performing clients have excellent systems. My observation is that the mathmatically minded Farmers are the best a working out what systems that work for them. That's the beauty of Ag; there are so many ways to do things, and the system that works in Gilgandra, NSW, might not work in Freeling in SA. But if you have developed a pretty good system (none are perfect) that works on your Farm, you are more than halfway there. Do you reckon you have a pretty good Farming system? Reply to [email protected]

The Farmers Club headlines - Our 3 topics tomorrow are:
1) We talk about non-depreciating assets on the Farm. Can you think of some?
2) We cover the difference between Hay stored in the Shed and Outside.
3) We tell a good Supermarket/Farmer story. And watch the video, what a magnificent Property.
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Mallee Games - Active Farmers are holding the Mallee Games in Pinaroo, SA, on Saturday, March 16th. See all the information at the bottom of this page

National Cattle prices: EYCI 628 (-42), WYCI 412 (+84), Feeder Steer 333 (-23), Heavy Steer 280 (-22), Processor Cow 231 (-26). National Sheep prices: Trade Lamb 635 (-44), Heavy Lamb 647 (-46), Restocker Lamb 555 (-31), Mutton 211 (-70). Goat prices: 180 (NC). All prices are up until Friday, the 16th of February, and are cents/kg. Ranges are from a week ago. Source MLA.

Today's Trends - Sales trends included Sheep Yards, GPS Equipment, Tanks, Tractors, Sprayers, Kelpie Working Dogs, Poll Dorset Rams, Seed Cleaners, Silos, Ewes, and Urea

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Dwain Duxson
P - 0427 011 900
E - [email protected] 

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