Benchmarking AgInsights

The smart use of money and time is an important key to the success of your farm business

Through the analysis of a large number of farm businesses across south eastern Australia, AgInsights 2007 has become Australia’s most important source of knowledge on improving farm performance.

It is evident that the most telling impact on farm businesses from bad seasons is a loss of confidence in the things that work. Without benchmarking analysis and interpretation, the individual can draw a plethora of false conclusions because they have nothing to compare their performance against.

The 2007 year was the worst in the last 10, but the lessons learned will be what differentiates the best performers for the next ten years. AgInsights 2007 is about how to get the most out of the next 10 years.

Through the annual analysis of over 145 farm businesses across south eastern Australia, over 11 years, AgInsights 2007 has become Australia's most important source of knowledge on improving farm performance.

It’s not just numbers – AgInsights 2007 interprets the data and draws out the key messages

AgInsights 2007:

	Provides you with valuable information based on lessons learnt about Drought Recovery helping you to get back on top.
	Provides Strategies and Plans to ensure you and your enterprise continue to develop and prosper into the future.
	Enables you to assess Profitability Trends and therefore make more informed decisions about your enterprise.
	Draws upon Enterprise Comparisons allowing you to better understand where you and your enterprise fit in.
	Looks at Environmental Sustainability and ways you can maintain an environmentally stable enterprise.
	Includes Case Study on using the benchmarking information.

AgInsights 2007 is widely acknowledged as a valuable agricultural resource. More than ever before the emphasis is on the interpretations and explanations behind the numbers.

What you need to know to shape your future is in AgInsights 2007

Farm business performance

	How strong does your financial position need to be to go again?
	At what point would it be better to lease the farm out and at what price?
	Are farms eroding their capital base?

Crop production

	What should be done about the exponential rise in key input costs?
	What are the key management areas that helped minimise the losses?
	What crops faired best and worst in the drought?
	How important is water use efficiency?

Lamb & wool production

	What is really eating away at wool profits?
	What product should you focus on to make more money from the wool flock?
	Why is the merino ewe the superior prime lamb dam?
	How many lambs weaned per hectare is enough?

Beef production

	How did beef herds handle the drought?
	What factors are important for longer term beef herd profitability?
	What is the future for cattle trading?

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