We are increasingly talking about rural property management, but is this clear to everyone? At first, when we talk about management, we immediately think of a company, with defined processes, positions and a lot of financial analysis. Does this description remind you of your property? Congratulations!! A sign that you really have a rural company. But if this seemed far from your reality, it’s a warning sign! We need to professionalize this rural business more.
When it comes to managing a rural property, we cannot only think about administrative and financial management, there are other areas of management of this RURAL BUSINESS (or AGRIBUSINESS) that need to be worked on, as it is the union of these areas that will generate the final result.
Those who are further away from the “rural company” model will certainly think: “But what makes the results is the countryside!!!” and you are completely right! The field is the basis of the result (not the whole) and that is why we have NUTRITIONAL MANAGEMENT of the herd, where we use specific tools to carry out nutritional planning so that each animal category has its nutritional needs duly met. And for this management to be carried out successfully, we use consolidated tools such as Farm Design and Rotational Grazing.
With Farm Design we do space-time planning of land use, that is, we identify the nutritional needs of the production system during the year and carry out forage planning so that we have food in sufficient quantity and quality so that all animals have their demands met. to achieve their production goals.
Rotational grazing is the way in which the animals will harvest what is produced by the plants, and which is based on maximum harvesting efficiency (more in less time), with maximum quality (the animal eats the filet mignon from the pasture). and faster regrowth (pasture produces more dry matter throughout the cycle).
With these two tools working together we have maximum animal production efficiency throughout the year! Do you want better nutritional management than this?
Once the herd’s first need has been met, we move on to other care for the herd, such as the organization of animal categories, production goals and health, which are important elements so that we can achieve the system’s production goal, as a whole. In this area, which is HERD MANAGEMENT, we set production goals for each animal category, such as, for example, pregnancy rate, weaning weight, average daily gain, etc., all with defined deadlines and within a macro plan to be achieved by the property. In other words, we measure and improve now, to reach the short, medium and long-term goals that we have already set, this way we never lose the direction we should follow and we are also able to measure how quickly we are managing to evolve. Still within herd management, health management is part of it, but not as a cake recipe, but with customized planning for each property, considering the challenges and realities of the property, and always ready for an adjustment, if necessary, of course. , but always with a preventive rather than curative focus. With this planning and organization of health management we achieve greater efficiency in management, generating positive results in both production and financial goals.
But of course, all these actions we talked about before depend on something in common, which is PEOPLE! Yes, people are core! There is no production, there are no results if we do not have COMMITTED and HAPPY people on our team performing their duties. To do this, we need to map profiles and work on employee development through planning and training. Each piece of this puzzle is key, but it needs to be in the right place and the objective of the whole is clear! That’s why PEOPLE MANAGEMENT is important so that we have everything going as planned and generating the financial results we want!
Speaking of finance, this is the area we all like! As long as it’s in the green, right?! It’s normal to have better control when things are going well (or are they going well because we have better control?), because when the results are not satisfactory it’s normal to try not to look closely at the numbers, but that’s the biggest mistake, because this is precisely when we most need to evaluate and readjust actions to get back on track. To do this, we use the annual Budget, with predicted and realized all inputs and outputs, as planned in the technical part, we can have this predictability and monitor whether what is carried out is in accordance with the forecast and make adjustments at the right time, so that we can achieve the profit that we stipulate as a goal in the project. To make this FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT even easier, we use the GERENSIA application, to automate rural accounting, where invoices are released and sent to your cost centers.
After 10 years working in the field, feeling the difficulties of the field and bringing results to more than 3,000 properties served, from family properties to groups of investors, we arrived at SIA TOTAL. This SIA solution brings together, in technical advice, the four areas of management, because we understand that this is how we can enhance production systems in a sustainable and humanized way. When we manage to organize these four areas, taking small steps, we make great progress and reap good results, big profits and people working happily. And this is SIA’s main objective in properties, to have complete management with SIA TOTAL so that agricultural companies are more profitable and have happy people working.
