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Apr 22

Spring Break Isn’t What It Used To Be

By Jordan Steele Communication, Labor Effectiveness, Planning & Management

Our toddler’s daycare follows the school district calendar so we are getting used to school hours and holidays. For those of you out there with little kids you can understand…

Apr 08

Who’s Doing the Calving on Your Ranch?

By Dallas Mount Ecology & Grazing, Labor Effectiveness, Production

Calving season is here. Across cow country, green grass is pushing through, and newborn calves are bouncing next to their mothers. There's a familiar energy on the ranch: part excitement,…

Feb 11

Gross margin per unit measures the economic efficiency of the enterprise.

Knowing Your Gross Margin Per Unit

By Dallas Mount Decision Making, Economics & Finance, Production

At Ranching for Profit we teach the Three Secrets for Increasing Profit. Obviously, they aren’t really secrets. But considering the lack of understanding of them by most agricultural businesses, many…

Jan 14

Ranch Work Done Right – Becoming a WITB Ninja

By Dallas Mount Decision Making, Labor Effectiveness, Making a Change

At Ranching for Profit we make a big deal about WITB (working in the business: the day-to-day operational work) and WOTB (working on the business: strategy, planning, and assessment). Most…

Oct 08

Ranch Technologies

By Dallas Mount Labor Effectiveness, Planning & Management, Production

Tech is rapidly changing the ranching world. In my experience I don’t think I’ve seen technologies that have the likelihood of such fundamental changes, as the technologies being rolled out…

Dec 13

Fix the Cow Business Before You Sell ‘em

By Dallas Mount Decision Making, Economics & Finance, Making a Change

Somewhere along the line Ranching for Profit has gotten a reputation for being the “sell your cows school”. I want to push back against that. I hope that Ranching for…

Aug 24

Overheads

By Dallas Mount Decision Making, Economics & Finance, Planning & Management

My last ProfitTips article focused on the difference between being productive and being profitable and I used gross margin as a measure of profitability of an enterprise. In introducing gross…

Aug 10

Productive But Not Profitable

By Dallas Mount Economics & Finance, Planning & Management, Production

North American agriculture could be described in one statement. “Productive but not profitable.” For decades the primary messaging to farmers and ranchers has been to become more productive. You see…

Oct 27

Can Small Scale Operations be Profitable?

By Dallas Mount Decision Making, Economics & Finance, Production

I often hear from people operating on a smaller scale that their limitations of size make it impossible for them to be profitable. “I only run 12 cows and operate…

May 12

Gross Margin Inside the Cow Herd

By Dallas Mount Economics & Finance, Planning & Management, Production

We just wrapped up a full Ranching for Profit School in Oklahoma City. It was an amazing week where 54 people spent a week exploring the leadership of their businesses…

cows

Spring Break Isn’t What It Used To Be

Who’s Doing the Calving on Your Ranch?

Knowing Your Gross Margin Per Unit

Ranch Work Done Right – Becoming a WITB Ninja

Ranch Technologies

Fix the Cow Business Before You Sell ‘em

Overheads

Productive But Not Profitable

Can Small Scale Operations be Profitable?

Gross Margin Inside the Cow Herd

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