Thinking beyond one cycle.
WHAT TO PLAN
What to produce, where and when What inputs are needed, and when What cash is required, and when What labour is required What can be sold, and to whom
WHAT ROTATION PROVIDES
Soil condition maintained Pest and disease cycles broken Risk spread
WHY IT MATTERS ECONOMICALLY
Continuous production of one crop degrades yield and increases input cost.
WHAT TO PLAN INTO THE ROTATION
Crops that restore soil Fallow, where appropriate
WHAT TO ESTABLISH
A cash flow across the year, by month.
WHY BY MONTH
Agricultural cash flow is extremely uneven, and the troughs are where farms fail.
WHAT TO IDENTIFY
The point of greatest cash need.
WHAT TO ARRANGE BEFORE IT
Funding, or enterprises producing revenue then.
WHAT STAGGERING PRODUCTION PROVIDES
Revenue across the year rather than in one period.
WHAT ENTERPRISES WITH DIFFERENT CYCLES PROVIDE
The same.
WHAT TO REVIEW AT THE END OF EACH YEAR
Which enterprises performed What the actual costs were What went wrong What to change
WHAT TO CHANGE
One or two things, deliberately.
WHY NOT EVERYTHING
Changing everything makes it impossible to know what worked.
WHAT TO BUILD OVER SEASONS
Records that make each year's planning better than the last.
