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At AgriSolutions®, we believe that providing a full range of consulting services is essential in providing value to our client base and helping them manage their business. 

AgriSolutions Presents...

Estate and Succession Planning 

You are never too young to begin thinking about the future of your operation.  Will your farm be viable for the next generation?  We recently surveyed our clients and asked, "What concern about your farm operation keeps you awake at night?"  "Assuring that my farm is still viable for the next generation" had a 78% concern rating. 

Planning for estate and succession is especially complex inlittle_boy_with_cowboy_hat_1.png farming. Crop insurance and FSA program payment considerations, the historic run up in land prices, increasing complexity and
competitiveness, and other issues make farm succession planning unique.  

To address this unique need for Estate and Succession Planning Services, AgriSolutions has assembled a great team of professionals with a true heart for, and tremendous knowledge of, agriculture. This team is committed to creating plans that fit your estate and/or succession needs in the most effective way.  

It's never too early to start thinking about the future for your family and farm....Give us a call today to discuss how we can help you in this area.   1-877-372-3003

Other Consulting services offered by AgriSolutions® include: 

Business Management System (BMS)

This is a management tool to help you manage and help improve profitability, reduce risk, make better decisions and have the information to support decisions by assimilating information to manage Product/ Commodity, Activity, Location and Production Cycle. You can identify which crops are profitable and which are not carrying their fair share of the costs.

BMS includes a premier set of products/ services including managerial accounting, data reviews, accounting assistance, and benchmarking. AgriSolutions® provides guidance every step of the way to successfully implement this management system. 

Historical Performance Analysis Plus (HPA+)

The HPA+ allows you to understand your operation’s financial performance and health based on 5 years financial history. This service consists of a documented graphical analysis that helps you identify your operations financial strengths and weaknesses and the impact capital and operating decisions on your business. This analysis will provide you the information to focus your management attention where it is needed.

It will help you answer questions like: what needs to change for my operation to become more effective? Are my assets generating enough revenue? How much debt should I carry? How should that debt be structured? What do I need to do to manage my cash?

CFO Financial Assistance

This service provides interpretative report analysis and consultative services using AgManager® information. Clients benefit because they get better control of their business, better understanding of the use of financial information for day to day management activities.   

Our consultants work with you to understand what AgManager® reports are saying about the business and use the budgeting process to help management drive change where it’s needed.

Managerial & Entity Report Analysis

This service is designed to help our clients improve the quality and understanding of their financial data. 

Our consultants or data review analysts will review your entity reports with you. You will learn to understand and use entity level reports to address operating efficiency, major and minor income items, key expenses, asset turnover, working capital, how much debt you can carry, which assets are key to your business and debt structure.

Financial Success Plan

This features an analysis of your operation over a five year trended period and then offers action planning strategies to help overcome obstacles and take advantage of opportunities. The financial success plan starts with the HPA+ then adds action plans and consulting monitoring meetings to assure that proper results are accomplished.  

Interviews are performed to assure your operation’s key members are working towards a common goal.  We will have face to face or internet meetings with your family/management to assure communicatrion and focus on implementing success plans. We will monitor your business and review your historical trends and future opportunities to ensure you are on track.

Farm-By-Farm Comparison

The Farm-By-Farm Comparison is an analysis between farms and commodities to show a comparison of profitability with a number of differing variables.  This report includes financial factors such as yield variances/ projections, government payments as a percent of revenue and profit, and total gain/loss by commodity that is delivered by phone and/or web.

Benchmarking

This service compares the performance of the clients operation to similar producers. By this comparison, it gives clients the opportunity to improve at an “activity” level relative to profitability, margins and costs.

Forecasting/ Budgeting

This service looks forward to plan future operations, investments and cash flows. This also helps producers focus on business issues that need to be addressed and provides measures of performance as the plan takes place. 

Asset Management

The Asset Management serivce is designed to help you understand how well your assets are performing and which assets are essential to your business. Our consultants will review the asset performance with you. The goal of the Asset Management service is to improve asset performance with better management, which in turn, will help you improve profits, maximize growth and purchase the right assets. 

Debt Management

Concerned about debt?  Having trouble making payments when they are due? Wondering how much money you can (should) borrow and how to structure that repayment?

This service evaluates the debt and liquidity of a business using tools to analyze the credit capacity and annual debt service capacity and the number of years to pay off capital debt. It evaluates whether a business has adequate working capital, too much debt, how the debt is structured and what cash management tools had to be in place.