Parkes Agricultural Consultancy Pty Ltd was employed by Sundown Pastoral Company Pty Ltd to manage the farming enterprises at &quote;Keytah&quote; 38 kilometres west of Moree in July of 1997. It is to this enterprise that these proceedings relate. When I was initially asked to prepare a paper on this topic I thought it would be an easy assignment to relay what it is that we do to achieve consistently high yields. Endeavouring to be both precise and concise about the specifics of almost everything we do or have done over the past six years, is almost a contradiction in terms. I will, therefore, attempt to confine this paper to the overall management issues pertaining to our production, rather than getting into the complexities of what we are doing with varieties, plant spacing, nutrition, irrigation, field design, agronomy, cropping systems, etc. Whilst these are all exceptionally important in producing the most we can out of our farming system, the interests of time and space will not allow the detail required or these topics here. Further to this is the mass of information that we are all subject to at a conference of this nature and I, for one, have always struggled to ingest and digest the information that is directly relevant to me. Important things to me have always stuck in my mind better when referred to in an amusing or interesting way. So please forgive my indulgence in offering to you some of the &quote;Pearls of Wisdom&quote; that have assisted me in management over many years