Adams County- Ranching For Profit
Day 1
10AM-4PM
Setting the Stage
- Do you own a business or just a pile of assets and a bunch of jobs?
- Challenging conventional wisdom that ranching isn’t and can’t be profitable.
- Working In The Business v. Working On The Business (Knowing how to raise livestock is completely different than knowing how to build and run a business that raises livestock)
The Three Secrets for Increasing Profit
- Starting a business from scratch, we will start a livestock business from scratch to identify the 3 things you can do to increase profit.
- Looking for “dead wood”
Restructuring Your Ranch For Profitability
- Enterprise analysis
- Economics vs Finance
- Key metrics for success
Day 2
8AM- 3PM
- Review Day 1
Ecology and Grazing
- Learn and apply the 5 grazing principles
- Use the grazing principles to improve economic performance of the ranch business
Wrap up and Q&A
Requests for accommodations related to disability should be made to the event contact person at least two weeks in advance of the event.