Farm accounting, from the field to the bank.
Practical writing on crop budgeting, Schedule F, Form 4562, and the lender package your operation has to hand over every winter.
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How to Create Lender-Ready Farm Financials
Your ag lender doesn't just want a tax return. He wants clean statements that show the operation can pay him back.
Farm Repayment Capacity: Debt Service Coverage
Can this farm make its payments and still feed the folks at home? DSCR is how lenders find out.
Farm Solvency: Understanding the Debt-to-Asset Ratio
How much of your outfit does the bank already own? The Debt-to-Asset Ratio is how lenders answer that question.
What Lenders Look For in Farm Financials
Working capital, current ratio, debt-to-asset. Here's what your lender is calculating from the statements you hand them.
Farm Liquidity: Current Ratio and Working Capital
Current Ratio and Working Capital to Gross Revenues — the two liquidity numbers your lender watches most closely, with a worked example and the seasonal swings that move them.
Farm Management Software: What to Compare
Most farm management software demos well and fails at year end. Here's the checklist that separates the two.
Why Your Farm P&L Doesn't Match the Tax Return
Cash vs. accrual, missing categories, depreciation differences — here's why your P&L and Schedule F drift apart, and how to close the gap.
Farm Bookkeeping: A Monthly Routine
Most farm bookkeeping pain comes from doing twelve months of work in one week. Here's the monthly version.
Corn and Soybean Budgets That Hold Up at the Bank
Lenders don't fund optimism — they fund defensible assumptions. Here's the checklist that keeps your operating loan approved.
Agriculture Accounting: Guide for Row-Crop Farms
Ag accounting isn't small-business accounting with tractors. Here's what's genuinely different, how to handle each piece, and what the finished year should look like.
Break-Even Price and Yield for Corn and Soybeans
Break-even price and yield are the fence posts your marketing plan hangs on. Here's how to calculate them right.
What Agricultural Lenders Look for in a Balance Sheet
The Balance Sheet is the first page a lender reads. Here's what they're looking for and what raises concern.
How to Turn Schedule F Into a Working Chart of Accounts
The IRS already gave you a chart of accounts. It's on the back of Schedule F. Here's how to use it.
Turn Legal Pad Receipts Into Clean Farm Books
Photo-in, categorized-out. A workflow that keeps your books current all season instead of once a year.
7 Crop Budget Mistakes Farmers Make
Seven ways crop budgets go wrong — and how to build one that actually reflects the operation.
Cash vs Accrual Accounting for Farms
Cash is simpler. Accrual is more accurate. Most farms actually need both — here's how to split the difference.
Farm Accounting Software That Thinks in Fields
A farm isn't one business — it's dozens of small businesses, one per field. Here's why your books need to reflect that.
How to Prepare for a Farm Loan in 2026
Walk into the lender's office with a clean package. Here's exactly what they want and how to assemble it without a last-minute scramble.
QuickBooks for Farms: Honest 2026 Comparison
QuickBooks works fine for a barber shop. Here's an honest side-by-side for a row-crop operation — what it does well, where it breaks, and how to move.
Form 4562 and Your Farm Balance Sheet
Form 4562 is a ready-made asset list hiding in your tax return. Here's how to use it to build a defensible Balance Sheet.
Crop Budget Analysis: Project Profit by Field
Whole-farm averages hide losing fields. Field-level crop budgets make you look each acre in the eye before you plant.
How to Import Schedule F Into Farm Accounting
Schedule F numbers are already IRS-accepted. Import them once and reuse them as a tax-verified baseline for your P&L.