Failure or success of an operation is a direct reflection on management, not the weather or markets. Integrated Resource Management is the balancing of a ranch s resources for the maximum benefits and directing a ranch s changes, while maintaining diversity and flexibility to meet future consumer demands. It is doubtful that any person can accurately assimilate the mass of information and predict the overall ranch outcome without detailed planning and evaluation. Ranching in the future means putting it all together in the best manner possible, while improving your skills with experience. In other words, think and act in a total IRM concept.
Some ranchers think that good management is doing things right.
Technology and skills are available on most ranches to do things the right way. Successful management, however, decides the right things to do. It s relatively easy to fix a fence, buy better bulls, etc. In order to make decisions about what the right things are to do, an overall view of where you want to go is necessary. The ranch must establish long-term goals and determine plans on how to achieve those goals.