PPT - 8.8MB - Society for Range Management
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Jennifer Cunningham,
Jay Springs Lamb Co.,
Pinantan Lake, BC
Canada
Who we are.
Where we are going and why
Marketing, value chain
How are we making it happen
Grazing
Take home messages
-Private
land
-Woodlot
-Grazing
licence
lease
- 4 hours & 20 minutes
from Vancouver, BC
- 7 km east of Pinantan
Lake, 34 km north east
of Kamloops, British
Columbia, Canada
10 years of grazing on cut
blocks
Vegetation control and site
prep for plantation
management
Entered markets - conventional approaches
Annual sheep sales in
Kamloops and area
Breeding and selling
purebreds
Selling commercial
breeding stock
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Local auction yards
Breeding for wool
Ethnic markets
Provincial lamb retail
promotions/commodity
market sales
Too much work not enough pay
Quality attributes embedded in animals by enhanced
management not supported by the markets we were
entering.
Generation management –
Considerations: Parents retiring, management of
landbase for 3 families, assorted skill sets and knowledge
bases, courses, estate and business planning,
marketing……….
Our mission statement:
Our want of a sustainable lifestyle motivates our business.
Our main goal: Develop a viable operation selling and
producing lambs to a market that will support a small
scale sustainable farm.
Woodlot license 311 will be a viable and sustainable
operation meeting the family partner’s social, financial
and environmental objectives.
Result
Each lamb needs to sell for more!!!
Cost based pricing systems
Much more responsive to your farm
management and your skills
What is in a name?
Can you live up to that name?
Will that name hinder or grow
with you?
Are you the real thing?
Management of farm and woodlot together.
Need more grass, more lamb, more trees.
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Improve production costs
expand grazing season to cut down on hay bill
increase production per ewe
increase gains on lambs
Increase flock to level of sustainability – financial, produce more
lamb
Increase tree inventory on ranch to increase woodlot AAC while
protecting wildlife and ecological values and creating an multi-aged
tree diversity
This is what we had at the time to work with:
100 – 105 lb lamb finished on grass at 3-5 months
Agroforestry system – silvopasture
Blends management of trees, forages and livestock –
interactions are planned and managed
System is operated for and evaluated as a single
enterprise rather than as separate parts
Agroforestry
Forest 2020 project
Competitive Advantage