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WHOLEFARM is a computer aided whole farm planning system designed to optimize farm and financial planning decisions by developing formal farm plans specific to each farm operation.  Basically WHOLEFARM allows producers to "build" a farm plan into the program on a farm and field by field basis and generate a variety of reports including:

• Acreage, rotation, and production histories
• Comprehensive cost analysis for all crops
  • variable cost per acre based on budgets
  • itemized and fixed cost per acre per crop
• Total farm income and expense report with:
  • total projected acreage
  • expected total production of all crops
  • expected selling price of all crops
  • expected gross revenue of all crops
  • expected total production costs
  • expected net return 
• 12 month itemized cash flow statement
• Cross Commodity Break-Even Price Matrix

Once the farm plan is "built" into WHOLEFARM, many situations can be addressed to analyze the direct impacts on your farm such as:

• Evaluating which crop enterprises to plant for profit maximization,
• Analyzing the impacts of changes in crop prices on farm income, cash flow, break-even yields, optimal crop acreage, etc.,
• Analyzing rents (either adding a potential rented farm or dropping an already rented farm or negotiating rents with landlords - same analogy with purchasing),
• Analyzing equipment purchase decisions (fixed cost can be estimated for an individual tractor, plow, etc., to let a grower know the per acre/per crop cost of each piece of equipment and also the total cost per acre/per crop), and many other analyses.

For more information download  WholeFarm brochure or contact:

• Marshall Lamb
• Staci Ingram

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