Happy Farms multi-variate regression models

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Dear all,

 

Noma T. Petroff wrote

 

Naveen

> Krsna used to quote Srila Prabhupada as saying,

> "Lack of success is due to

> lack

> of training." Just providing land for prospective

> farmers is not sufficient --

> it must be accompanied by excellent training to give

> them expertise, confidence

> and a spirit of community commitment.

 

Along with Mark Middle Man's and others look at

multi-variant regression and systems of endowments and

tax relief systems, etc.

 

Comment:

 

If we were to believe that a great failing of ISKCON

farms were due to poor management - lack of success

due to lack of training - of which a thousand stories

can be told, then if one were to approach the whole

story with a fresh sheet of paper then success may be

able to replace failure.

 

 

Also, if business was seen as one of the "four" legs

that cow protection were to stand on - charity,

public, private and will of the Lord, and not as a

capital sin - but as the role of a vaisya.

 

Also, if success were seen as THE outcome, therefore

allowing to keep as many cows as possible with as much

milk and crops as possible, as Prabhupada states many,

many times.

 

THEN, it is only wise to look ahead 20, 50, 100 years

or more or less, in an analysis of population growth,

managed and controlled by man's control of the bull.

 

One can then come out with many different models

called Multi-variate Regressions (MVR)to see how

popuation grows, land requirements, labour

requirements, capital requirements according to the

dynamics of the growth.

 

One can therefore see the mature population cycle at

around 20 years, the maximum, minimum and optimum

intensity of milk production and amount of oxen

available. It would be possible to estimate the costs

- and basically map the whole system, according to the

variants within the MVR.

 

Depending on the make up between charitable, public

and private income, costs, subsidies, regulations,

etc, it would therefore be possible to have a basket

of solutions of how to meet such growth of business,

of activity of a growing dynamic herd and the

production that it entails.

 

As Mark Middle Mountain says: any MBA could do this.

I do not have an MBA, but when back in the UK next

month I am going to try to do this myself, now that I

will have more time. I do not have an economist

degree, but an agroforestry degree. We were trained to

be multi-tasked workers pulling in a wide range of

expertises from various disciplines to create a more

holistic analysis and practice of varied farming

systems throughout the world.

 

I seriously believe that with an MVR there would be a

data base and projection system for various

intensities of growth and production potentials.

I ask anyone here who is seriously interested in a

productive secular or sectarian farming system with

lifetime protected farm animals to help to produce

such an analysis. If there are any economists and

lawyers who would be interested to bring them in to

the conference so that all expertises can be drawn

upon.

 

Such future planning, available and transparent data

within a realistic mapped system, and management goals

that are tied to capability according to actual

situations, as well as a dynamic change of attitude

and expectations could lead the way to a successful

implementation of this farming system.

 

I beseach you all to at least help me to do the data

and systems analyis part of this. At least if on paper

it looks good then in cow and land reality it is much

more likely to succeed than just a purely ad hoc

approach.

 

Yours,

 

Mark

 

 

 

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