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Figured are proud to be sponsoring a great initiative to send 100 drought-affected Canterbury sheep and beef farmers to Mystery Creek Fieldays 2016.

Nick Hamilton is the North Canterbury farmer leading the cause - and it’s one that’s all too close to his heart.

Global agriculture is under going massive change with the ever increasing investment in technology and production. However, volatility in global soft commodity prices and the vagaries of inconsistent weather patterns remain. No matter how much we invest in technology, if it doesn't rain the farmer is in a world of pain, which I think is a concept that is being forgotten as we continue to invest in technology and chase yield.

You can now include stock quantities in financial reports - simply click 'additional info' and select to add them to your next report.

We’ve recently introduced a new widget to your dashboard. The waterfall chart essentially gives you your variance report in a graph form. It shows you the variation between the year's budget against the actuals + forecast values for all your key categories.

The biggest event on the farming calendar is fast approaching and we hope to see you there! Mystery Creek Fieldays runs from 15-18 June, and we're excited to once again be on a premier site alongside our key partner, Xero,

BNZ has recently taken an investment in Figured, a company that is rapidly adding value to the rural sector of New Zealand through its ability to add real time budgeting to the data feeds from Xero. We’ve been working with the team at Figured for quite some time, and it became obvious that they had a solution that could solve a number of industry and bank problems.

We are proud to share that Figured took home the New Zealand Venture Investment FundHi Tech Start Up Company of the Yearaward at the 2016 awards gala on 21 May.

We're thrilled to share that Figured is a finalist in the New Zealand Hi Tech Awards, Start Up of the Year category for 2016.

The NZ Hi Tech Awards celebrate New Zealand’s most successful high-tech companies and highest achieving individuals, and it's an honour for Figured to be nominated as part of this year's event.

After dry weather withered last season's milk production in Victoria, it's easy to see how the financial success of regional farming can swing on the whims of Mother Nature. But as Warragul-based business advisory firm,Pursuit Advisersare proving, data-driven services are here to give farmers a new way forward.