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The lean farm : how to minimize waste, increase efficiency, and maximize value and profits with less work / Ben Hartman ; illustrations by Emma Gerigscott.

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The lean farm : how to minimize waste, increase efficiency, and maximize value and profits with less work / Ben Hartman ; illustrations by Emma Gerigscott.
Author
Hartman, Ben, 1978-
Publication
  • White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Gerigscott, Emma
Description
xii, 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm
Summary
Lean principles were originally developed by the Japanese automotive industry, but Hartman has applied them to farming. As a result, he's been able to drastically cut waste, increase profit, and make his family farm more environmentally and economically sustainable. With ample examples from his one-acre farm in Indiana, Hartman illustrates how to incorporate lean practices, on farms of any size or scale, at each step of the production chain, from starting a farming operation and harvesting crops to training employees and selling goods. Hartman's approach of working smarter, not harder, aims to prevent the kind of burnout that start-up farmers often encounter and enable a new generation of young people to choose farming as a viable career path--COVER.
Alternative Title
How to minimize waste, increase efficiency, and maximize value and profits with less work
Subject
  • Agriculture > Waste minimization
  • Lean manufacturing
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-226) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Every tool in its place -- Farming for your customers -- Learning to see value -- Ten types of farm waste -- Flow I: tools to root out farm production waste -- Flow II: tools to root out farm management waste -- Lean farm sales: pull, not push -- Continuous improvement (Kaizen) -- Respect for people: lean and farm staff -- Lean applied at Clay Bottom Farm: ten specific cases -- The lean farm start-up -- The limits of lean in agriculture -- Lean for more than profit.
ISBN
  • 9781603585927 (pbk.)
  • 1603585923 (pbk.)
  • 9781603585934 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
  • 1603585931 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2015015957
OCLC
907011652
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library