The traditional leadership does not last “What is it Lean can?”, I am frequently asked. Let me give an example by telling you how you can save money by getting a lower diesel consumption. In a traditional management you will tell your employees that they need to drive in a certain way to get a…
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…
A farmer told me this after I had introduced the system. They have made three boards for each barn. I asked them what they saw as benefits of the T-cards. It was actually a lot of things : It provides a complete overview. From a distance I can see how far everyone has come. I…
