An online system providing actual costs & work rates by operation.

Providing a true costs of production ~ Direct comparison to other farms ~ Strategies to reduce cost/tonne.

Establishing your costs

Showing your actual costs and work rates by machine by operation by crop, optionally down to individual cost centre

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Benchmarking with other farms

Directly comparing your costs and work rates anonymously by operation across 1000's hectares of similar farming enterprises

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Reducing costs by best practice

Optional discussion groups to review current machinery and operations against similar farms and formulate cost reduction strategies,

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Understanding & Benchmarking costs in your enterprise

find out how farmcosts software can benefit your business

Established back in 2004, developed with the Joint Venture Farming Group in conjunction with farm consulancy services and software engineers farmcosts is an online platform designed to provide cost comparison data to assist in choosing the right machinery and in reducing costs per tonne.   Through farmcosts we provide management information through the year and a bespoke report ‘Traffic Light' reporting system to help to manage costs and boost management confidence and effectiveness.

Jamie Gwatkin, winner of Farm Adviser of the Year and one of the architects of farmcosts


Is my data secure? Who else gets to see my data?

Absolutely secure & nobody but you (without your consent).

We are committed to keeping your data secure. 256 Bit encryption ensures a secure connections from our server to your browser. Certified to ISO 27001 our server is protected by the highest level of physical and cyber protection with a Cisco ASA Firewall.

Once we have your data we don't share any recognisable data with anybody (unless you decide to join one of our discussion groups)  We will use your data anonymously for comparative purposes and our average cost calculations to show you and all our subscribers how well they are performing.

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