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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 here

Understanding Farm Accounts

A short beginner course to gain confidence with your farm accounts, allow 1-2 hours

Analysing Farm Accounts

An intermediate course to help you get more information out of your farm accounts

Whole farm benchmarks

Compare your farm finances to the national average of farms similar in size and type to your own

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.

Advanced Calculators

Benchmarker

1. Assess your farm's business performance over the last 3 years

Farmer's Balance Sheet

2. Establish your asset baseline

Whole Farm Budget Template

3. Assess what business as usual looks like, and plan for change

Cash Flow Calculator

4. Use this calculator to think through your year ahead and plan your cash flow

Farm Productivity

A range of 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

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)

Carbon and Biodiversity Management

Coming soon: Resources and tools to support environmental sustainability within your business

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