FOR IOWA CPAs AND FARM CONSULTANTS | June 2026
The spreadsheet was built for a different market.
Iowa's 2026 season requires something else
Tighter margins, a rewritten safety net, more volatility than most producers have dealt with in years — your clients already know the pressure. This guide is about what it means for the advisors sitting across the table from them.
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There used to be a rhythm to it. Operating loan renewals. Crop selection. Harvest. Year-end. You knew roughly when the conversations were coming, and a spreadsheet-based workflow was built around that predictability.
When pressure was seasonal, the process could keep pace.
But when volatility is constant — grain prices moving mid-season, lenders tightening on sector sentiment rather than individual performance, safety-net rules rewritten in the middle of the year — clients aren't calling at the predictable points anymore. They're calling when conditions shift, when the bank requests something, when a decision can't wait two weeks for the numbers to be rebuilt.
The spreadsheet wasn't designed for that market. Most practices in Iowa are still running one.
What you'll learn:
What Iowa's 2026 season is putting on your desk
A grounded picture of what's driving client conversations right now — income pressure, OBBBA payment changes, lender behaviour tightening at the sector level, and structure and succession questions that can't wait for year-end.
Where the spreadsheets can't keep up with the market
It's not an expertise problem. When the same market move hits multiple clients at once, there's no way through a spreadsheet-based workflow that isn't measured in days. The ceiling isn't your ability — it's the tool.
What advisors who've moved past it say
You'll hear directly from advisors who've changed what their client work runs on — what shifted, what they didn't expect, and what it meant for specific client outcomes when the numbers were already there.
What it looks like in practice
Live data from QuickBooks Online or Xero. Scenario modelling in minutes, not days. Bank-ready financials before the bank calls. How Figured fits into an existing workflow — and what it makes possible when conditions move fast.
This guide is essential reading for:
- Farm accountants and consultants in Iowa with corn or soybean clients on their books right now
- Advisors whose clients are making decisions about operating loans, forward contracting, or entity structure in the next 90 days
- Consultants looking for a purpose-built alternative to managing this work in spreadsheets
What's inside the brief?
- The decision calendar: what corn and soybean clients need at every key moment in the season — and what happens when the calls start coming between those moments
- What Iowa's row crop producers are actually facing in June 2026 — income pressures, the OBBBA safety-net rewrite, structural shifts, and the conversations currently landing on advisor desks.
- An objective look at where spreadsheet-based workflows break under pressure. And why it's a system problem, that now has a solution.
- Direct accounts from advisors who've moved beyond spreadsheet workflows, and what changed for their clients as a result
- How Figured works and how it connects to what you already use
Want to spend less time updating spreadsheets and more time advising clients?
Download the guide to see what changes when your client work runs on live data in Figured instead of a spreadsheet.