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RECORDING AVAILABLE: Why stay in wool sheep?
The recording is now available of John Francis' recent webinar discussing the details of his independent analysis of the profitability of wool-growing enterprises.
WHY STAY IN WOOL SHEEP?
Australian Wool Innovation (AWI), commissioned John Francis, Director of Agrista, the highly-respected Agricultural consultancy company, to investigate and compare various farm enterprises with wool sheep, consider the motivations for change, whether the perceptions are real, and what the wool industry can do to retain wool growers.
Many former wool growers have changed enterprise based on perception that alternative enterprises would deliver higher profitability. The report demonstrates using comparison data that a change of enterprise is unlikely to deliver such a result, and that greater profits are more likely to be derived from improving performance within an existing enterprise than moving between them.
* * * WEBINAR RECORDING AVAILABLE * * *
John Francis' recent webinar discussed the details of his independent analysis of the profitability of wool-growing enterprises, covering: the relative financial performance of wool enterprises; variation in operating profits between enterprises; improving financial performance over the medium-long term; and the real levels of volatility in wool enterprises.
It also covers financial and productivity assessment; finding the key features that deliver greater profitability; managing grazing systems, including matching feed supply and demand and improved feed utilisation; sheep health and welfare; managing labour requirements and contractors, including your shearing team; infrastructure investment and efficiency; reducing systems complexity; and what categorises top 20% performers?
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