Livestock markets move fast. The advisers and farmers winning in this climate aren't the ones who can predict the future — they're the ones who can see their financial position clearly and act now. Not in two weeks.
What You'll Learn
Every week, farmers make calls on buying, selling and financing without their accountant in the room — because the answer can't arrive in time.
"Livestock is too hard to predict" is why most advisers stay at compliance level. But the farms struggling most in this climate aren't the most volatile — they're the least visible.
How Figured, AgriWebb and your accounting platform connect to give the whole farm team access to the same live data.
Real demo walkthroughs of Figured's Livestock Tracker and Planning Grid, hosted by Figured Partner Success Specialist Doireann Mulhall.
This practical guide is essential reading for:
It's Friday afternoon and the saleyards are moving fast. There's a mob of quality cattle available, the kind that don't come up often, and the farmer has to decide now. He calls his accountant. Can he afford it?
They want to help, but a real answer means reconciling livestock numbers, locating the current cash position and running scenarios. That could take days. By then the gate has closed and someone else got in first — and for a typical practice with livestock clients, that can happen hundreds of times a year per adviser.
Spreadsheets are excellent at looking backwards and poor in real time — broken formulas, different working versions, nobody keeping them current. Forget advisory; spreadsheet management becomes half the job.
The farm's financial position is already current, so there is no scrambling the night before. The accountant walks into the bank meeting with scenarios and strategies rather than spreadsheets, and the bank can say yes faster because the numbers tell a clear story. When feed costs start tracking over budget, it gets spotted early — while it is still a small problem.
If you're not measuring what you're doing, you can't manage it. And Figured has certainly given us a greater ability to manage things, because we are measuring so much more.
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