Cropping Schedules in CashPeek: Plan Your Season with Confidence
- jack7216
- Jul 22
- 4 min read
Take the Guesswork Out of Your Cropping Budgets
Cropping Schedules are a key feature for farms wanting to see how every cropping decision can have a financial impact. From seed inventory to old and new season grain, knowing how those decisions affect your cash flow is critical to any farm business form $50,000 up to $10 million+ in grain sales.
That's why Cropping Schedules are in CashPeek.
Built specifically for Australian broadacre farmers and advisers, Cropping Schedules bring your production planning, grain inventory and farm budget together in one place. Instead of relying on disconnected spreadsheets, you can manage your entire cropping program inside your cash flow budget.
Whether you're growing wheat, barley, canola, chickpeas, lupins, lentils or hay, CashPeek helps you forecast production, manage costs and understand your financial position before the season unfolds.
What Are Cropping Schedules?
Cropping Schedules allow you to build a complete production plan that automatically connects with your CashPeek budget.
You can:
Plan multiple crop enterprises
Budget hectares and expected yields
Track grain inventory from previous and current seasons
Manage seed inventory
Forecast production and grain sales
Allocate cropping expenses across the year
See the cash flow impact of every decision
Instead of updating several spreadsheets, everything is connected in one budgeting platform.
Build Your Cropping Enterprise
Getting started is simple.
Create a Cropping Enterprise and add each crop you grow as its own class.
For example:
Wheat
Malt Barley
Canola
Chickpeas
Lupins
Lentils
Oaten Hay
Each crop can have its own production assumptions, sales schedules, costs and financial outcomes, giving you a clear picture of how every enterprise contributes to your business.
Connect Production to Your Farm Budget
One of the biggest advantages of CashPeek is that production planning isn't separate from your finances.
For every crop you can budget:
Area planted (hectares)
Expected yield (tonnes per hectare)
Total production
Grain retained for seed
Grain retained for livestock feed
Share farming allocations
Expected losses
Grain held over for future sale
Tonnes available for sale
CashPeek automatically calculates production totals and links them back into your cash flow forecast, giving you greater confidence in your seasonal planning.
Manage Grain Inventory Throughout the Season
Knowing what grain is already in storage is just as important as forecasting the next harvest.
CashPeek allows you to manage both:
Old Season Grain
Track:
Opening grain on hand
Feed purchases
Grain used for livestock
Transfers and losses
Grain sold before harvest
Remaining stock before the new harvest
New Season Grain
Forecast:
Production
Grain available for sale
Grain retained on farm
Closing grain inventory
End-of-season grain values
This gives you a complete picture of inventory movement across the year rather than just a harvest estimate.
Track Seed Inventory Separately
Seed management is often overlooked in traditional budgeting tools.
CashPeek includes a dedicated Seed Inventory schedule that allows you to monitor:
Opening seed stock
Seed purchases
Seeding requirements
Seed sales
Losses and transfers
Seed retained for next season
Closing inventory value
Because the Seed Inventory is connected to your cropping schedule, it provides an extra level of accuracy across your production plan.
Budget Cropping Costs Across the Year
CashPeek lets you assign costs directly to each crop and spread those expenses across the months they occur.
Examples include:
Fuel
Fertiliser (As shown above)
Chemicals
Grain handling
Freight
Insurance
Grain levies
Seed treatment
Seed purchases
Contract cartage
Rather than seeing one large annual figure, you can forecast exactly when those costs will impact your cash flow throughout the season.
Forecast Cash Flow Before You Plant
Cash flow is often the biggest challenge in broadacre farming.
With Cropping Schedules connected to your budget, CashPeek helps you understand:
When major expenses occur
When grain income is expected
Seasonal cash flow peaks and troughs
Working capital requirements
Financing needs before they arise
This allows farmers, accountants and advisers to make more informed financial decisions before the season starts. If you're on farm, you can add your accountant and/or advisor as a collaborator so that you can stop chasing numbers.
Designed for Australian Farmers
CashPeek has been developed with Australian farming businesses in mind.
It's ideal for:
Broadacre cropping enterprises
Mixed farming businesses
Livestock Producers
Horticulture Farms
To be collaborate easily with:
Farm consultants
Agronomists
Accountants
Rural financial advisers
By combining production planning with budgeting, CashPeek provides one place to understand both your farming operation and your financial performance.
Why Farmers Are Moving Beyond Spreadsheets
Many farms still rely on spreadsheets that quickly become outdated, they break and not easy to send. CashPeek has designed a simple to use tool so that anyone can use it by removing the friction between you and a great budget.
CashPeek provides:
One connected budgeting platform
Better visibility across the whole business
Accurate production forecasting
Integrated grain and seed inventory
Month-by-month cash flow forecasting
Faster budgeting updates
Better decision making
Instead of asking "What happened?", you can confidently ask "What happens next?".
Start the proactive conversations early.
Start Planning Your Next Season with CashPeek
Cropping Schedules give Australian farmers a practical way to connect production planning with financial forecasting.
Whether you're preparing next season's crop program, reviewing
grain inventory or forecasting cash flow, CashPeek helps you make decisions with greater confidence. We also take feedback on board for our new developments.
Book a demo today or start your free CashPeek trial and see how Cropping Schedules can simplify your farm budgeting.
Contact the team at info@aglytica.com or call 0438 976 910
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