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Growing a Business in a Changing WorldGrasslands Agriculture
South Africa
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South Africa 34°
South 24°
East
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1950’s Father reads “Grasslands of New Zealand”
by Sir Bruce Levy ‐
vision to farm
with low cost pastures.
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1967 Purchase 170 ha block of overgrown land in the Tsitsikamma
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GRASSLANDS TODAY
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Our Changing WorldOur Changing World
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1990
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Political Political EnvironmentEnvironment
1994 first fully democratic elections
Post “revolutionary” politics
Redress the wrongs of the past
Poverty eradication
Job Creation
Farmer friendly to consumer friendly gov
Business friendly to labour friendly gov
Re-join the international community
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Legal EnvironmentLegal Environment
1995 – Labour Relations Act
1996 – Land Reform Act - 30% by 2014
1997 – Security of Tenure Act
1997 – Basic conditions of Employment Act
2001 – Capital gains tax
2003 –Black Economic Empowerment Act
2007 – Agri BEE charter
2008 – Companies Act
2008 – Consumer Protection Act
A number of green papers - Land reform et al.
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Natural EnvironmentNatural Environment
1998 National Water Act
1998 National Environmental Management Act
EIA Regulations
Climate change
Green Power
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Economic EnvironmentEconomic Environment
Dairy Control Board Abolished - Milk is Milk
Part of global economy - imports
Growth - post sanctions then commodities boom
Credit crunch/dot com bubble/9-11
Demand for cheap food – little tariff protection
Interest rates 9-25%, Ex Rate R3-R13 /US$ now 7
CPI targeted 3-6% but was higher
Last dairy co-op listed in 2010
Domestic market – imports disruptive - Exch rate
Powerful retailers
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Social EnvironmentSocial Environment
Poverty
Poor quality education
Poor national health service
Crime
High unemployment
Growing middle class
Aspirations to city life
Both First world and Third world society
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Technical EnvironmentTechnical Environment
Very little local Research
Extension - subsistence/emerging farms
International Research available - Must know who what to ask
Subscribe to international journals and periodicals
Suppliers sometimes slow on technology uptake
Legislative restrictions on registering varieties/animals
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GRASSLANDS GRASSLANDS AGRICULTUREAGRICULTURE
1990-2011
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Production & Cow no's 1992-2011
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TB
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Total pasture areaPastures 1 955 Ha
Schoonfont 310ha 15%
No 2 225ha 12%
Veelgeluk 190ha 10%
Mangere120 ha 6%
Heemstede 150ha 8%
Grasslands 140 ha 7%
Vlakte 220ha 11%
Riverina 150ha 8%
Gradita300 ha 15%
Kenmore 150ha 8%
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Grasslands Agriculture Today
• 10 Farms• 9000 milking cows• 4000 followers• 126 employees• 50m litres
of milk
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What differentiated What differentiated GrasslandsGrasslands
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INNOVATIONINNOVATION
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INNOVATIONINNOVATION
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. - Peter Drucker
"There's a way to do it better—find it." - Thomas Edison
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Process of technological Process of technological innovationinnovation
A Unique chronological process involving science, technology, economics, entrepreneurship and management is the medium that translates scientific knowledge into the physical realities that are changing societies
James Bright
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Innovation Process at Innovation Process at GrasslandsGrasslands
TechnologicalConcept
Evaluate Adapt Refine Concept
Manco Decision Capex
ImplementInnovation
Scientific Knowledge Farm Inventions
Consultant
Farm Need
Procure and Training Farm Profitability
Brian TwissBrian Twiss
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HEARING GRASSHOPPERS HEARING GRASSHOPPERS JUMPJUMP
Almost all the ideas we have implemented at Pick ‘n Pay, we learnt from others. We are not clever people at Pick ‘n Pay. Keep your ear close to the ground so that you can hear Grasshoppers jump.
Raymond Ackerman 30 March 2006
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ACQUIRINGACQUIRING SCIENTIFIC SCIENTIFIC
KNOWLEDGEKNOWLEDGE
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READING
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Managers off to NZ
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SA LARGE HERDS CONFERENCE Started in 1999 bringing technology to SA
dairy farmers
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INNOVATIONSINNOVATIONS
GRASSLANDS
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Pasture proven genetics 1984
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Pasture Management 1988 ‐
Import No‐till planters from NZ
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1992 ‐
Large Bore direct to pipeline swingover
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MANAGING KIKUYU 1996 ‐
visit Prof Bill Fulkerson ‐
Wollongbar
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Pasture Management Grazing Consultant from NZ ‐
1999
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2004 ‐
Land Reform using Sharemilking
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Monthly Innovation ‐
Moses Award Encourage all staff to innovate ‐
Henry Ford if you hire a man for
his hands his head also comes along
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CEO Trevor Elliott
HUMAN RESOURCES
Michelle Bosch
FINANCIAL MANAGERMartin de Bruin
STOCK CONTROLLER Sharon Delport
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT
Karen Kelsey
CREDITORS
Annalie Venske
ACCOUNTANT
Thinus Visser
OPERATIONS MANAGER
TSITSIKAMMA Francois Cordier
GRASSLANDS
Elton Windvogel
Stephan Muller
PIERRE DU TOIT
Nellis Anderson
Riaan Kemp
ANDRÉ VAN ZYL
KENMORE MANGERE GRADITA VEELGELUK
Attie Hiscock
JOHAN MARITZ
Nelson Awu
Jaco van Niekerk
CHRISTO LE ROUX
NO. 2 DAIRY RIVERINA SCHOONFON-TEIN VLAKTE HEEMSTEDE
Armandt Blignaut
RHETT MANNHEIM
FJ Fick
HENNIE BRONKHORST
OPERATIONS MANAGER
HUMANSDORP/KAROO Tom Fourie
Mandiso Grootboom
FRANCOIS BOSCH
Vusumzi Pukwana
Elias Zepe
SABELO MAGAGAMELA
Corné Marais
JOHANN WEITSZ
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Future InnovationFuture Innovation
“Many small cumulative improvements in all farm components will be combined and integrated into whole farm systems to produce significant total gains” Prof. Colin Holmes
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Future ChallengesFuture Challenges
More legislation on land reform, tenure and BEE
Ownership models – BEE Scorecard
Demand for food and food security
Management structure
Management Incentive
Recruitment swop MBA for Bsc Ag
Has Agriculture been re-rated as investment prospect