Farm Focus

Create, revise and organise your financial plans in one place

Planning & Budgeting

Farm Focus helps you create plans easily and guides you through the creation process

Create a draft plan

A great way to start a plan if your business is expected to perform much the same as a prior year

Create a plan using your actual transactions

A 45 minutes webinar to learn how to create and a working plan or budget in Farm Focus.

Farm Focus webinar: create a working plan

Create Plans

Farmers can export their Farm Focus Cashflow plan to Microsoft Excel

Export cashflow to Microsoft Excel

Filter all your plans by bank account, so you only see information relevant to that bank account.

Filter by Bank Account

Learn about the Accrual View function in the Working Plan and the different features to track farm profitability

Accrual View in the Working Plan

Daily bank balance shows your bank balance each day for the current month. It will alert you if you are going to exceed your Over Draft.

Daily Bank Balance

Cashflow

Input the default carcass weight in your Livestock codes to standardise weights for your Reports

Carcass weight yield

Learn more about your Livestock Reconciliation report in Farm Focus

Livestock Reconciliation report

Enter actual opening stock numbers for the beginning of the year

Enter actual opening livestock numbers

How to add non-financial livestock events like births and deaths as planned items.

Adding planned non-financial livestock events

Learn how to find a quick view of your planned or actual breeding percentages in the Livestock tab of your Plan

View your Breeding Percentage in the Working Plan

You can adjust your opening livestock numbers from within the Working Plan, and add Management Tags if needed

Amending Opening Livestock numbers

The Livestock tab of your Working plan will track all of the Actual and Planned stock events throughout the year.

Working plan - Livestock tab

A 40 minute webinar to learn to create and maintain an accurate stock reconciliation and manage your livestock in Farm Focus.

Farm Focus webinar: managing livestock

When recording actual and planned sheep and beef sales and purchases,  you’ll need to include the carcass or live weight.

Livestock weights in invoices, transactions and plans

Record additional payments such as pool payments and loyalty payments as well as livestock related deductions

'Other' livestock payments

See here how to determine your opening and closing livestock values

Determining livestock values and weights

Livestock

Learn how to use the Dairy Forecaster for your farming business

Introducing the Dairy Forecaster (Tutorial)

Learn how to record your annual milk production and how this flows into your reports

Record your annual milk production in Farm Focus

Dairy Forecaster and Budgeting Milk Income

Learn more about the Settings and Viewing options for your Plans

Manage the Settings in your Plans

Draft plans can be renamed at any time while Working and Baseline plans use a set name

Rename a plan

Your Working Plan is the main budget, it is a living document. It automatically revises with your actuals as the year progresses.

Working plan

You can promote a draft plan to be used as part of your working plan at any time during the year

Make a draft plan the working plan

An overview of how baseline plans work in Farm Focus

Baseline plan

Learn here all the great features of the Working Plan, and how to prepare your cashflow for the season.

Understanding your Working Plan (Tutorial)

An overview of how the plan screen works in Farm Focus

Overview of the plans

There are several time saving tools to make creating and editing plans quick and easy.

Tools and features for entering information into a plan or budget

When do actuals appear in my Working plan

Actuals and my Working plan

Read here to learn why your overdraft interest isn't automatically calculating for you in your Working Plan

Overdraft Interest not calculating

Manage Plans

The dairy forecaster is a tool that predicts milk income from milk production.

Dairy forecaster

Farm Focus will give you the option to choose your invoice date when you are coding your Milk production income

Record your invoice date for Milk Production

Record milk income for multiple dairy farms under the same Farm Focus subscription.