Gloucestershire dairy farm focusses on KPIs

At a recent meeting at Lydney Park Farms, an AHDB Strategic Farm in Gloucestershire, the importance of setting key performance indicators and targets was discussed. Ellie Layton reports.

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Gloucestershire dairy farm focusses on KPIs

Over the next three years, Lydney Park Farms, Gloucestershire, will be focusing on profit targets to aid business planning, and the farm's team have been working with Brendan Horan, of Teagasc, to help...

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