FAS Problem Solver: Toolkit
A range of easy-to-use calculators, decision-making tools, resources and courses to help you manage your farm and croft productivity, finances and environmental measures.
Farm Finances
Improve your farm business financial management:
Understanding Farm Accounts
A short beginner course to gain confidence with your farm accounts, allow 1-2 hours
Strategic planning
Step back from the daily work in farming. Consider where you'd like your business to go in the future. And figure out how to get there.
Whole farm benchmarks
Compare your farm finances to the national average of farms similar in size and type to your own
Analysing Farm Accounts
An intermediate course to help you get more information out of your farm accounts
Advanced Calculators
1. Assess your farm's business performance over the last 3 years
2. Establish your asset baseline
3. Assess what business as usual looks like, and plan for change
4. Use this calculator to think through your year ahead and plan your cash flow
Farm Productivity
Resources to support improving your farming output:
Liveweight Production
A calculator to help you measure your baseline livestock production, see where you can improve
Lambing
At lambing time use this tool to decide how best to treat hypothermia
Antibiotic Usage Tool
Assess your annual antibiotic use, and plan for next year
Milk from forage calculator
Find out your litres of Milk from Forage
Sheep Quarantine Decision Tool
If you are buying in sheep, this tool helps you decide how to prevent liverfluke spreading in your flock
Calculators
Crofting
Crofting-specific resources to support your business decision making:
Multi-Species Grassland Sward tool
Find out the most suitable herb and flower species for your mixed sward on your croft
Assignation of a Croft: a step by step guide
A step by step guide on how to assign your croft
KPI Tool Template
Perform a gross output analysis, and set KPIs for your business so you can track progress (Download Excel file)
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