The Lean Dairy Farm

'For those farmers who value their team, respect their cows and are focused on leading a sustainable farming business, adopting a Lean way of thinking will be a breakthrough. Reading The Lean Dairy Farm may be your best investment ever.' --Juliet Maclean, farmer and co-founder, OnSide and Synlait > --Andrew Meuli, farmer 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. Using her own family's farm as a case study, she introduces practical tools that every farmer can apply 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. You'll learn how to: 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.