Guides
Cost of production, enterprise budgets, and margin you can actually locate.
Start here · 13 min read
Most farms know what the farm cost. Far fewer know what the field cost, and that is the number that decides next year.
Read the guide →
Guide · 11 min read
The weaned calf is the unit. Most of what it cost hides in a pasture nobody sends you an invoice for.
Guide · 9 min read
There is no correct basis, only a defensible one. Pick it, then write down which one you picked.
Guide · 10 min read
A farm can make money while half of what it does loses money, and the whole-farm number will never tell you which half.
A wrong attribution is a confident lie; a missing one is only a gap you can see.
Your own hours and your own land are real costs. Counting them is what makes the answer mean anything.
Many crops, one bed, shared labour, and a season that overlaps itself.
Guide · 7 min read
The same row answers the accountant and the recall. Most farms only write it for the accountant.
Two numbers that look like analysis and are really just your cost of production, restated.
Depreciation, interest, insurance, and shelter accrue whether or not the machine leaves the shed.
If the fuel card buys groceries, every cost figure downstream is fiction with a decimal point.
All guides
