Start to write down what you want to archive with the Lean project When you start a Lean implementation on your farm you must start with you vision for the project. What do you want to achieve? The vision don´t need to be measurable. You can think of it as a direction. But it must…
The traditional leadership does not last
Lean Farming has developed a 5-point program for staff leadership in agriculture companies. I call the program “A net of structure”. There is a jungle of good advice and solutions, so it helps a lot to put it into some boxes. The five boxes in “A network of structure” covers the subject using checklists, forms…
It is gold to see waste! A young guy is driving into a gate. The wall is destroyed and the wagon has been broken. It’s pretty annoying – for all parties. The poor young man was fed up – and embarrassed. He does not feel any success that day. The story could have ended there…
Denmark is best in Labour Productivity in the statement from European Dairy Farmers. They produce 350 kg milk inclusive production of feed. The Danish farmers are best in efficiency and in work planning. They know how to organize the work. Labour productivity can be optimized by these eight points: Structure and work planning Standard procedures…
Value Stream Mapping Some are more familiar with the word value chain that value stream. But that is nearly the same. When you have a chain of activities some of them are value adding and some are not value-adding. You and your employees can find the non-value adding activities (= waste) and remove them in…
200 Uganda farmers joined the conference in Kampala the 21th February. They took notes, asked questions and discussed details about fertilizer, seed, animal management and lots of subjects. It went on from 10 am to 5 pm in the beautiful garden of Spenser Hotel. I promised to put my presentation on my website, so here…
It can be done by working with Productivity. There is 8 important factors which has effect on productivity. You can influence all of them and you don´t need to invest money. You can produce more with the same workforce by looking at: Structure and work planning Standard Operations Procedures (SOP) Good logistic Healthy animal and…
Danish farmers are at the very top with productivity measured as kg milk produced per. work hour. Now they will be even better! The European organization European Dairy Farmers are doing benchmarking on members’ financial results. 300 milk producers from Europe and Canada participate in the comparison and the Danish group is on top of…
Alf Egil Vaula from Norway was listening to a 20-minute presentation, I gave at a conference in Oslo in 2013. He then read the book Vibeke and I wrote “Lean in cattle farming” (danish), attended a meeting with Lean Farming in Denmark and then he just started with Lean on his dairy farm. It went…
