The Lean Dairy Farm: Eliminate Waste, Save Time, Cut Costs

Description: The Lean Dairy Farm by Jana Hocken, Mat Hocken 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 and how to apply these tools, practices and principles to your dairy operation. The Lean Dairy Farm helps reduce the common problems and stressors faced by farmers every day: long work hours, high staff turnovers, repeat problems, breakdowns, wastage, safety and high costs. Using her own familys dairy farm as a case study, Jana provides insight into how the Lean approach applies to farming, introduces practical tools to help you improve efficiency and reduce waste, 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. Quickly make use of basic Lean concepts on your farmIdentify and eliminate waste in farm processesOrganise your farm effectively to improve productivityStandardise your processes to do everything right the first timeDevelop an engaged, high performing team If you want a more efficient, profitable and robust dairy farm, The Lean Dairy Farm is for you. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Back Cover 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 One of the most valuable books Ive read. As a farmer, Lean has helped me to combat my two biggest challenges: Time and Cost. --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 familys 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. Youll 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. Flap 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 One of the most valuable books Ive read. As a farmer, Lean has helped me to combat my two biggest challenges: Time and Cost. --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 familys 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. Youll 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. Author Biography JANA HOCKEN is a veteran Lean business consultant with a background in Toyota, who has assisted hundreds of companies across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, America and Europe. She has been a speaker at numerous events and in 2017 developed the successful LeanFarm training program specifically for farmers. MAT HOCKEN is a 4th generation farmer and 2017 Nuffield scholar. As well as embracing Lean on the farm, Mat aims to inspire farmer-led innovation, through projects such as The Rural Innovation Lab and FarmCave. Table of Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction xi Part I The concept of Lean 1 1 Before we get started … 3 2 What is Lean? 9 3 Applying Lean to dairy farming 31 Part II 10 Lean tools that will transform your farm 43 4 The 8 wastes on the farm 45 5 5S workplace organisation 91 6 Visual management 141 7 Standard work 187 8 Value stream mapping 231 9 Practical problem solving 261 10 Built-in quality 289 11 Total productive maintenance 309 12 Creating flow on the farm 339 13 Visual planning 355 Part III The culture of a Lean Farm 371 14 Creating the right culture 373 15 People behaviours 379 16 Lean leadership 385 About the authors 397 Index 399 Details ISBN0730368416 Publisher John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd ISBN-10 0730368416 ISBN-13 9780730368410 Format Paperback Place of Publication Milton, QLD Country of Publication Australia Year 2019 Author Mat Hocken Imprint John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd Subtitle Eliminate Waste, Save Time, Cut Costs - Creating a More Productive, Profitable and Higher Quality Farm Short Title The Lean Dairy Farm Language English UK Release Date 2019-02-15 Publication Date 2019-02-15 NZ Release Date 2019-02-15 US Release Date 2019-04-09 Pages 432 Audience General AU Release Date 2019-02-15 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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