Having a principal focus

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By Dwain Duxson - An Ag Enthusiast

Having a principal focus - I got to tour a Farm last Friday that had the most unique but simple Cropping system I have ever seen. Read the write-up here. I was blown away at how the Farm owner Bill Bourchier had developed a Cropping model that suited his principal focus. Weed-free Cropping.

It got me thinking that every Farmer should have a principal focus and then build a model around that principal focus. It can be an enterprise principal focus. If you are breeding Sheep for marbling meat traits, build a model around that. If your focus is on growing the best pastures and then building a Livestock trading model to suit those pastures, focus on that.

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This is where experience comes in, and having a developed rinse-and-repeat system that keeps getting refined each season is the way to go. All of a sudden that model doesn’t look like anyone elses. A bit like the one I witnessed last Friday.

It’s all about something you want to achieve over anything else, something that really matters to you, and something that governs the bottom line. Some identify it early and then just build their system around it, and it is all about the rules of refinement after that. One thing I reckon it has to be is simple; by that, I mean if you have a lot of moving parts, a lot of levers you need to pull, then it may go off the rails. Like Bill and his single-minded focus on being weed-free is one of simplicity. Do you have a unique model you can share? Or do you have a principal focus you can build your model around? Reply to dwaind@farmtender.com.au

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