Consultancy
Our Consultancy Services
One key service provided by the MacKinnon Project is consultancy. The MacKinnon Group offers a full service revolving around consultancy. These services are mostly extended to livestock producers, i.e., sheep and cattle owners that are present in South-eastern Australia.
This particular service takes note of the importance of the financial sustainability of the farm. Also, we recognise that adjustments to a management aspect can have an impact on some other farm management aspects. As such, in assessing the farm consultancy services, we take off by looking at the farm’s financial situation and then measuring if it’s up to the standard of operations with close traits. After this, we can then map out a detailed plan for the increase of lucrativeness of the livestock production enterprise.
Some of the aspects covered include the following.
Farm Financial Analysis and Benchmarking
This is the first step to bettering the lucrativeness of your business. You must be able to take note of the point where you are and your competitors. You have to assess the standards of measurement, thus enabling you to identify your business’s strengths and weaknesses. You should then take note of areas that need improved practices.
The Analysis Package
This package examines the intricacies of income and cost, then measures it up to a certain standard. After this, we employ the use of gross margin analysis, variable examination, and absolute costs needed to implement the recommendations. This is to take note of farm practices that will help with output increase while also simultaneously reducing production cost.
Matching Availability of Pasture with the Demand for Feed
The matching of the available pasture with the feed demand will help increase feed use efficiency, thereby reducing the overall farm cost by simultaneously decreasing additional feeding, which allows for more cost.
In matching pasture time with feed demand, the timing for calving or lambing has to be synced with lactation when the feed is mostly available. Most times, you can alter lambing time without a cost increase of negative cash flow to the farm. However, more stocks will have to be pumped into increased profits.
Farm Management Calendar
This is also an important aspect of our consultancy services. The reason largely responsible for these procedures is the timing to ensure that there is an accurate assessment of condition score, take measurements of the growing livestock, evaluate their feeding requirements, and take a measurement of the available pasture.
The production of pasture can be increased to the highest using fertilisers, herbicides, and generally an improved grazing management system.
Identifying the Most Profitable Livestock
For wool production, identifying the most profitable animal means evaluating the genotype of the sheep, analysis of the history of your flock, and providing assistance with wool sampling.
Efficient and Lucrative Animal Health Problems
As much as we may try to ignore, animal health problems are important in avoiding losses. As such, our operators and experts design a strategy to help cut back losses and increase productivity on the farm. Some of the strategies involve; vaccination programs, control of worms, immunisation, eradication of footrot.