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Agricultural consultants and land agents play a crucial role in the functioning of the rural economy - whether that is providing management services to landlords, advising on the latest regulations or applying for funding on behalf of landowners and farmers.

Growing up on a farm, Jeremiah R. Woltemath (J.R.) has always had a deep connection with the farming industry. But despite moving into the accounting profession, his affinity for the ag sector never left, having become a Shareholder at Iowa based Dickinson & Clark CPAs, PC, an ag-focused accounting firm. With J.R.’s experience as a CPA and his focus on advisory services, he's committed to helping farmers run profitable and successful businesses now, and for generations to come.

We're excited to announce that we've received our SOC 2 Type 2 and SOC 3 report, reaffirming our commitment to information security and making all our efforts in this area transparent to our customers, partners, and staff. Achieving SOC 2 type 2 and SOC 3 has been an opportunity to put our security practices to the test, and demonstrate they are meeting the highest standards.

The season started off slow with 8:30a.m. starts. But within two weeks of calving I was up to 90 hours a week with 9:00p.m. calving cow checks, and back to 3:30a.m. alarms. Luckily the weather was playing ball and the rains occurred during what downtime we had, the breakdowns were at a minimal and our part-timer was on board and doing a great job.

The concept of Natural Capital is to be a key part of UK Agriculture’s evolution, presenting farms with an opportunity to make change now. Unless you’ve been isolating under a rock of late, you will have heard the agricultural industry discussing the period of immense change the sector is set to undertake. A key aspect of the discussion surrounding UK agriculture's evolution is natural capital, the value attributed to our natural assets - our soils, trees, water, and ecosystems.

Promar International, UK’s leading agri advisory provider to farmers, recently announced the launch of Agstute, a new cloud-based system powered by Xero and Figured that combines accounting, reporting, planning, benchmarking and forecasting to create the data dashboard of choice for farm businesses. Figured's David Kirby caught up with Neil Adams, Managing Director of Promar International on the future of farming, consulting and data.

DairyNZ, the voice of New Zealand farmers, and software-as-a-service farm financial management firm Figured have established a new partnership to deliver more timely and accurate farm information to farmers, policy makers and rural professionals.

The arable farming sector has undergone several distinct periods of change and innovation over the last 50 years. The latest trend in innovation is the rise of regenerative agriculture, as the industry rises to the challenges imposed by climate change. This green movement is occurring at the same time as the rise in digital farming technologies and dramatic shifts in market economics.

What a year 2021 has been! It’s been another year filled with challenges, but at Figured they’ve only fuelled our fire to move faster and improve the tools our customers rely on. So here are some product updates we’ve launched in 2021, along with links to the Help Centre articles to support you in making the most of these new features on Figured.