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  • March 29, 2013 at 7:07 pm #78087
    JaredWoodcock
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    What kind of book keeping programs do other small farmers use? Quick books is the only one I know of and before I buy it I thought I might ask around. I need to make the schedule F tax prep simple and easy.

     

    Jared

    March 29, 2013 at 7:19 pm #78088
    dominiquer60
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    I use composition notebooks 🙂 a different color for each business and third that lives in my truck recording mileage, gas purchases and repairs. I don’t know if I have a good tax lady, or I’m just used to organizing my info just enough, but taxes cease to intimidate me with a paper system.

    March 30, 2013 at 5:29 am #78089
    Does’ Leap
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    I use Quickbooks and I like it a lot.  It can be frustrating b/c you need to be accurate to the penny.  I gave up balancing my checkbook through the program (I do that by hand) and only use the program to for invoicing, tracking expenses, and recording payments.  My wife does our taxes on Turbo Tax with all the info generated by QB.

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    March 30, 2013 at 6:31 am #78090
    Anonymous
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    Quick books is a great program.  We have used it since 1997 .  Easy to use and helps you keep good financial records. There a number of options depending on your business needs.

    March 30, 2013 at 7:27 am #78091
    Anthony
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    If you just need simple book keeping, check out Gnucash http://www.gnucash.org .  It is totally free and I have an easier time with it for what I need than quickbooks.  It has many accounting and business features as well, though not as many as quickbooks.

    March 31, 2013 at 9:45 am #78132
    JaredWoodcock
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    Thanks I always use notebooks too but now Im realizing that I have so much data that I would like to keep track of and be able to move around for my different parts of the business that a computer would make things a lot easier. I will still have notebooks but now Im hoping I can manipulate the info.

     

    thanks for the info everybody

     

    Jared

    March 31, 2013 at 7:37 pm #78145
    Eli
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    When we were dairying we used a program from red wing software it was farm specific. And could track things for Busness management as well as taxes. Eli

    April 1, 2013 at 11:41 am #78151
    near horse
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    As I sit here with paper records/receipts all over the place and try to read some of my mileage numbers that were scrawled with a half- frozen pen in the pickup I might suggest looking at some of these sites for ideas and downloads.  Quicken and Quickbooks are so general and designed for “other” businesses (rentals for one thing) tha I gave up and started searching elsewhere.

    Here’s a whole list of record keeping software (free – I’m pretty sure)http://agebb.missouri.edu/download/index.htm

    Also a free Excel sheet already setup

    http://agebb.missouri.edu/mgt/mofar/  (scroll down and click on the highlighted Farm Record Book in Excel to check it out)

    Farm Record Book in Excel
    Download a free Farm Record Book in Excel. For producers comfortable with basic Excel, this spreadsheet farm record book offers the ability to: track income and expenses, cash flow summary, expenses by vendor, receipts by buyer, enterprise receipt & expenses, and checking account balances. For questions contact Whitney Wiegel, MU Extension Ag Business Specialist at: (660) 584-3658, WiegelW@missouri.edu.

     

     

    April 1, 2013 at 1:09 pm #78152
    j.l.holt
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    I carried a large yellow envelope in the glove of the truck..Stuck all paper work in there. At the end of the month, added up everything and wrote it on the out side. Sealed them in to not lose.. If  it was written in the side,,I had a receipt in side.   Wrote the month on it and all the info was together for tax time.

    April 1, 2013 at 10:53 pm #78176
    near horse
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    Tried to edit my previous post but no luck ….. my first link

    Here’s a whole list of record keeping software (free – I’m pretty sure)http://agebb.missouri.edu/download/index.htm

    was to a page with MOSTLY ancient spreadsheets that I couldn’t get to work. I think some were generated with a 286 and Windows 3.1 —–I apologize but the farm record book does work and might give one an idea of how to set up a record using Excel.

     

    Sorry.

     

     

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