Cutting costs

Agricultural input costs, from fuel to fertiliser, have risen rapidly. But the prices farmers receive have only risen recently, and not every sector has benefited.

Regardless of what happens to price, there will always be a need to find ways to keep costs down.
 

How can your business get it right?

There are wide variations between the highest and lowest cost producers. To succeed, you need to understand what to do to ensure that your business sits at the more profitable end of this spectrum. IGD’s experts can help.

We believe that analysing other parts of the economy, or other farming businesses, can highlight many practical ways to reduce costs and our case studies and factsheets have been designed to do just that.
 

Case studies

Learn from the experience of others working to cut costs.

World class cheese
Real life benchmarking - Long time exponents - Sentry Farms
Stargrazers - Getting together to benchmark dairy production
Peter Hall - Best practice in the top fruit sector