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Dec 14

Economic Planning

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

Dwight Eisenhower said, “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” Eisenhower might as well have been talking about ranching. Speaking of planning ... How is your…

Nov 09

A Perspective on Gross Margin from Aaron

By Dallas Mount Decision Making, Economics & Finance, Planning & Management 5 Comments

Aaron Helmick is a pain in the rear. Even worse he is a dairy farmer from West Virginia pain in the rear. 😆 Somehow Aaron managed to marry Tara and…

Aug 24

Overheads

By Dallas Mount Decision Making, Economics & Finance, Planning & Management 6 Comments

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 2 Comments

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…

Feb 23

Economic Analysis

By Dallas Mount Decision Making, Economics & Finance, Planning & Management No Comments

We recently wrapped up our two day Economics Intensive where alumni of the Ranching for Profit School prepared their economic plan for the coming year. For many of us, if…

Feb 09

Moneyball is a Movie About Ranching

By Dallas Mount Decision Making, Making a Change, Planning & Management 14 Comments

The first time I watched the movie Moneyball, I about came out of my chair thinking, “This movie is about ranching”. The correlations are strong and the lessons from the…

Jan 26

Making Changes with John Marble

By Dallas Mount Labor Effectiveness, Making a Change, Succession 5 Comments

John Marble, Ranching for Profit alumnus from Oregon is a not only a rancher, but a thinker, (I consider him a ranching philosopher) and a writer. He wrote the following piece for On…

Dec 22

A Strong Gross Margin

By Dallas Mount Decision Making, Economics & Finance, Production 7 Comments

If you’re ranching for profit, there is one way to define “a good cow”. She has a strong gross margin. In much of my writing and speaking it might seem…

Nov 24

Maybe We Should Keep Those?

By Dallas Mount Decision Making, Economics & Finance, Labor Effectiveness

Have you ever looked at a group of calves, heifers, cull cows and thought, “Well… maybe we should just keep those?” If you have, you’re not alone. Acting on this…

Sep 08

What Can We Do vs. What Should We Do?

By Dallas Mount Decision Making, Making a Change, Risk/Drought 6 Comments

In managing through the recent drought covering much of cow country, I hear a lot of discussion around questions like: “How many cows ‘can’ we keep?”; “How much hay do…

gross margin

Economic Planning

A Perspective on Gross Margin from Aaron

Overheads

Productive But Not Profitable

Economic Analysis

Moneyball is a Movie About Ranching

Making Changes with John Marble

A Strong Gross Margin

Maybe We Should Keep Those?

What Can We Do vs. What Should We Do?

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