Dossier

In general, the WIRE course presents material on each of the steps outlined by the WIRE process diagram. Specific presentations and topics are provided in the list below.

SG#1- WIRE Case Study: Warbonnet Ranch and Introduction to the WIRE Process

SG#2- High Tech and Bobby’s Business Ranch

SG#3- Introduction to Strategic Goals, SMART

SG#4- Course Materials, Homestead and its Goals

SG#5- Strategic Goal Setting Summary

SG#6- Resources Needed to Achieve Goals, Assigning Costs to Goals

SG#7- Strategic Goal Setting For Own Operations

IOR#1- Resources, Resource Balance Sheets & Flow Statements

IOR#2- Personality Profile, Inventorying the Human Resource

IOR#3- Small Group Interactions, Team Building

IOR#4- Range Resource Field Trip and Range Resource PROBLEM SETS

SAE#1- Six Factors Affecting Profits

SAE#2- Introduction to Tactical Planning

SAE#3- Introduction to and Using the Financial Calculator

SAE#4- Retained Ownership PROBLEM SET

SAE#5- Potential Enterprises and Enterprise Selection

EP#1- Tools of Tactical Planning and the Enterprise Plan PROBLEM SET

FOR#1- Resource Flow Plans and the Forage Flow PROBLEM SET

FOR#2- Discussion of What Homestead Actually Did

IMP#1- Operational Planning

IMP#2- Introduction to Operational Planning and the Livestock Field Trip

IMP#3- Forage and Forage Management

IMP#4- Body Condition Scores, EPDs, Pelvic Measurements, etc...

IMP#5- Hay Sampling and Test Results

MAA#1- Monitoring the BASIC Resource - Natural

MAA#2- Monitoring the HUMAN Resource

MAA#3- Monitoring the LIVESTOCK Resource

MAA#5- Monitoring the WILDLIFE Resource

MAA#6- Evaluating Resource Performance PROBLEM SET

MAA#7- Course Wrap-up