One way of managing cost is to increase the output at the same cost and thus generate higher income, or to reduce cost and maintain the same level of output. You can also look at finding the in-between to make sense.
My concern as a farmer is that most of us cannot do this. If you can't quantify your cost of production and you don't measure on-farm performance, you can't predict or measure the outcome of your changes. In order to start doing this, you need to quantify what each decision is going to cost you and measure the improvement in performance or income.
Fodder flow is one of the