When you're recording stock sales and purchases in Farm Focus, entering a weight is a required field for sheep and beef. Entering a weight for dairy stock sales and purchases is optional.

The weight entered can be either the carcass (CW) or live weight (LW) and you can select if you are entering the weight per head or a total weight.

As you record this information, more detail is surfaced for you within the invoice or transaction such as $/kg, per head, and total live or carcass weight.

If you're not sure what weight you should put into the invoice or transaction i.e. you've purchased some store lambs and don't have actual weight, we recommend putting an estimated weight in.

This will help to keep the information in future production reports consistent.

Entering weights into invoices and transactions.
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Entering weights into a plan.
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For purchase invoices and transactions, the default weight measure is live (weight),
while for sales, you can select either live or carcass.

The default weight measure for each stock code comes from the code set up.
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A default yield percentage has also been set within each code so that carcass weight can be calculated from live weight and vice versa in production reports.
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