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Farm Records and Business Planning Tools
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items Tools, books and free resources for keeping farm records, comparing costs and planning an agribusiness. Explore software alongside simple record-keeping guides, and choose a system you can maintain consistently. Check current software features, costs...
Free, open-source farm management software to explore for organising farm information. Compare its crop, activity and record features with the routine you actually need, and test the workflow before moving important records. Check current access, dat...
LiteFarm
Paid farm management software to compare for crop, livestock and business records. Review the current plan, features, team access and export options before subscribing, and test whether entering daily records fits your routine. Compare it with free s...
Farmbrite
Free University of Maryland Extension guide for beginning a farm record-keeping habit. Start with the information you will actually use for decisions, then set a regular time to update it. Useful before choosing software because it keeps the focus on...
Start Record Keeping Today!
Free poultry record-keeping reference for tracking the information needed to understand a small flock’s performance and expenses. Useful for deciding what to record before building your own notebook or spreadsheet routine. Review records regularly so...
University of Maryland Poultry Recordkeeping Guide
Free University of Maryland farm business planning resource. Useful for organising your goals, production approach and market assumptions before investing or expanding. Work through the tools with your own costs and buyers in mind. US examples and ad...
Farm Business Planning
A paid farm business reference for thinking through finances, organisation and the management side of growing. Useful for readers who want a structured book alongside the free guides. Check the contents before buying, and use your own prices, staffin...
The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook
Free FAO Farm Business School manual for training farmers, originally developed for South Asia. Useful for learning how to connect farm planning with business decisions. Adapt the exercises and market examples to your own enterprise and costs. The or...
Farm Business School manual: Training of farmers programme for South Asia
FAO practical training manual for aquaculture business planning. Useful for prospective fish farmers who want to assess the enterprise before buying stock or equipment. This link opens the AGRIS publication record; follow its source links for access....
Doing aquaculture as a business for small- and medium-scale farmers: practical training manual
Free beef-herd record-keeping guide covering categories such as health, reproduction and performance. Useful for livestock farmers choosing which records support their goals. Start with a manageable system and consistent animal identification, then e...
Record Keeping for the Beef Herd
University of Minnesota Extension collection of farm finance learning resources and tools. Useful for exploring budgets, financial statements and the information needed to compare farm decisions. Use your own current costs and income assumptions, and...
Farm finance
A farm business planning workbook available as a free PDF from SARE, with worksheets for goals, markets, operations and finances. Useful for moving from an idea to a written plan you can review and update. Download the blank worksheets and work throu...
Building a Sustainable Business
A free, shorter introduction to farm business planning for readers who want a starting point before tackling a full workbook. Use it to clarify your goals, available resources and next planning tasks. It complements Building a Sustainable Business ra...
The Basics of Farm Business Planning
A free SARE resource on comparing costs and returns for individual farm enterprises. Useful when deciding whether to expand poultry, add a crop or change a production method. Build the budget with your own quantities, labour costs and local prices, t...
Enterprise Budgets for Diversified Farms
Free university guidance on recording where farm cash comes from and where it goes. Useful for understanding why a profitable enterprise can still face a cash shortage at the wrong time. Read it alongside your sales, expense and borrowing records. Ad...
Statement of cash flows
Free guidance on listing farm assets, liabilities and net worth at a specific date. Useful for keeping equipment, livestock, inventory and borrowing records connected to the wider business picture. Review it alongside cash-flow and income records rat...
Farm Balance Sheet Guide