The Key Performance Indicators booklet includes detailed descriptions of 16 core KPIs, some example calculations and resources for farmers considering how to improve their farm business.
The KPIs, developed in conjunction with a group of industry professionals and farmers, include lambing percentage, ewe flock efficiency, calving percentage, fawn weaning percentage, gross farm revenue per effective hectare and live-weight gain.
Partnership chairman Malcolm Bailey said understanding how a farm business is performing is critical to making decisions on how to improve productivity and profitability.
“It is important farmers know where they are now so they are able to set targets and then see how their actual performance measures up against these targets.
“There are many possible measures which can be used to analyse the performance of a farm business, however, this resource focuses on a core set of KPIs that we encourage farmers to use as the starting point to understand how their farm business is performing.”
KPIs are sometimes called benchmarks.
“Although the two use the same measures their purposes are different.
“KPIs are used when farmers are setting on-farm targets such as increasing the lambing percentage or the number of lambs sent to processors at weaning.
“Benchmarks are used to help them to compare their businesses against other farms, for example, against a region or other farms of the same farm class.
“Overall, KPIs and benchmarking against others are both tools to help farmers identify where they are doing well and where they need to improve.
“KPIs can help farmers identify the great things they are already doing and the things where there are opportunities to make positive changes.”
Farmax general manager Gavin McEwen said “One of the key fundamentals of top performing red meat farm businesses is having goals and a good understanding of key drivers of profitability and keeping track of them.”
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