Finance and budgeting tools for agribusiness

Use these services and tools to help manage your budget and financial operations.

Agbiz

The Agbiz Excel spreadsheets can help you to calculate:

• basic gross margins
• partial and whole farm budgets
• farm cash flow analyses.

You do not need any financial training to use these tools. Each spreadsheet includes examples of data, but you will need to enter your own data to generate useful information about your farm.

These have been designed for Queensland farmers, but farmers across Australia and the Pacific can use them. The complete set of Agbiz tools can support you in decision-making and assessment for a wide range of on-farm activities.

Plant industries

• Field crops and pastures
• Fruits and nuts
• Lifestyle horticulture
• Specialty crops
• Vegetables

Fisheries

• Aquaculture
• General fisheries information

Animals and grazing

• Beef cattle
• Dairy cattle
• Mixed farming
• Pigs
• Poultry
• Sheep

Farm business and finance

• Carbon
• Export
• Finance
• Trellis economic analysis

AgMargins™

Broadacre and horticultural crop farmers in Queensland can assess production costs and inform farm management decisions using the AgMargins™ web-based gross-margin calculator and reporting tool.

Self assessment of transfer duty

The toolkits for transfer duty self assessors (including land and water) bring together everything you need to enter transactions into QRO Online for transfers, exemptions, aggregations and options.

Financial hardship

The Rural Financial Counselling Service provides free financial counselling to farmers, fishing enterprises, forestry growers and harvesters, and small, related businesses who are suffering financial hardship.