Industry

Murray King, Kingsway Farms, former Chair of LIC, Appleby Farms Director shares his Top 5 farming standards.

Gareth Lash is Chairman of Base Two Holdings, a 1400 cow equity partnership in Southland. Here he shares the operational KPIs the Board tracks to ensure the growth equity partnership will deliver on its business model. 

Rebecca Hyde is a Nuffield Scholar and owner of TFD Consulting where she works alongside farmers and businesses to strengthen environmental management. Rebecca shares what she thinks are the most important data sets to be capturing on farm.

Announcing an industry union that promises to bring another level of insight and depth to the Trev product suite, building on our vision to be New Zealand’s favourite farm reporting and insights platform. Trev has acquired Cloud Farmer, one of the pioneers of farm recording in New Zealand.

Colin owns and operates a 650-cow dairy farm, and two further irrigated properties that rear and finish bull beef at Methven in Mid-Canterbury with his wife Paula, and their two daughters.  Colin is chief executive of Dairy Holdings Limited which has extensive operations throughout the South Island. Colin shares the Top 5 KPIs he follows closely at Dairy Holdings.

Steve and Trish farm 2600 cows across 4 different operations in the Waikato. They run a contract milking system which extends to a farming team of 15. Steve says "our team are the ones that bring our farming system to life so while we have our non-negotiables on farm, our people are just as important. "

Julia Jones, Head of Insight at NZX, shares her favourite KPIs when thinking about farming through the lens of the consumer.

Cam Henderson farms with his wife and two children near Oxford, North Canterbury. Cam is also a director of Ballance and a Steering Committee member for He Waka Eke Noa. As a passionate advocate for sustainable agriculture, Cam shares his Top 5 KPIs which focus on achieving a balance of productivity, profitability and sustainability.

Just like any other asset, data only becomes valuable when captured, stored, maintained and protected in an appropriate way. It also needs to be validated and accessible.

Kate Scott is the Executive Director of Landpro, which works alongside dairy, sheep and beef, horticulture and viticulture farmers.  Before co-founding Landpro, Kate and her husband were managing a 200ha dairy farm in Roxburgh. Kate's Top 5 KPIs emphasise the importance of starting conversations and using available data to inform strategic decision making on farm.

Craig Hickman is a proud Fonterra farmer and the owner of a 1000-cow farm in mid-Canterbury. Craig shares the ways he strives for efficiency on farm

Jim van der Poel shares his tips on planning and building a high performing team.

Richard farms on the Hauraki Plains and is a director of farm supervisory company Dairy Direct which oversees the daily operations of around 35 dairy units in the greater Waikato and has just expanded into Southland. Richard shares some of key indicators that he and the Dairy Direct farm supervisors follow regularly to track and benchmark farm operational performance.

Jim's Top 5 KPIs offer some sage advice learnt from his years in farming. He says no matter what, "focus on the things you can control, have a plan, then you can work out what actions you’re going to take to get you through. Once the decision is made, implement and monitor.  If circumstances change make a new decision."

We speak to Trev CEO Scott Townshend about farm data  - why it’s important, how we can use it more effectively and what the gains are from a productivity, profitability and environmental standpoint.

In part two of this series, Gareth Lash, chair of Trev, shares his views on why data is rapidly becoming a strategic asset for farmers to add to their conventional portfolio of land, capital, livestock and labour to lift farm productivity. 

In part one of this series Gareth Lash, chair of Trev, shares his views on the drivers for industry data collection and use and why data is quickly becoming an important strategic asset for farmers.

Simon Le Heron is the CEO at Canterbury Grasslands Limited (Canterbury Hub). With a legal background, a strong technical understanding of farming, and his own farming investments, Simon puts a unique lens on the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) he focuses on.

We spoke to Trev Director and Southland farmer, John White, about the Top 5 KPIs he measures and the impact they have on his farming outputs.

We caught up with James Courtman about the Top 5 KPIs that he focuses on across his dairy operations, from both 'on-the-ground' and shareholder/director perspectives.

We look at the top 5 KPIs that Ash-Leigh Campbell, 2020 Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year, monitors, records and reports on every week.

Trev takes a look at the week on week pasture surplus/deficit on the effective milking platform for spring-calving dairy farms in Waikato, Canterbury and Southland for the current season to date, relative to last year.

We take a look at the Top 5 farming Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that Trev CEO and creator Scott Townshend likes to focus on.

There’s no point in collecting data if it’s not the right info and if it isn’t put to good use. Here’s 5 reasons why getting your operational data into a cloud database is essential.