To present information on farm business health indicators - the key drivers of profit and wealth creation.
Key messages
Benchmarking financial performance is an important way to improve a farm business. The FAST project has benchmarked over several years about 240 farms in total. They have come up with 11 indicators that can be used to assess performance. The indicators deal with business health or financial performance, income drivers and resource use.
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Acknowledgments
Tim Hutchings delivered a similar paper at the CWFS Seminar in 1998. This article is to be published in the 1998 Grassland Society's Conference Proceedings. Reproduction here is gratefully acknowledged.
Trial source data and summary not available Check the trial
report PDF for trial results.
Climate
Derived climate information
No observed climate data available for this trial. Derived climate data is
determined from trial site location and national weather sources.
Yerong Creek NSW
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
Jeffrey, S.J., Carter, J.O., Moodie, K.B. and Beswick, A.R. (2001). Using spatial interpolation to
construct a comprehensive archive of Australian climate data , Environmental Modelling and Software, Vol
16/4, pp 309-330. DOI: 10.1016/S1364-8152(01)00008-1.
