FAST (Farm Analysis Solution Tools) are a suite of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets designed to assist those in agriculture make better decisions via user-friendly computer programs. FAST aids users in performing financial analysis, assessing investment decisions, and evaluating the impacts of various management decisions.
Featured Tools
Last Updated: January 14, 2021
As an alternative to the executable tool you can download the spreadsheet here.
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Complete FAST Tools Catalog
- All Tools
- Farm Management
- Financial Analysis
- Grain Marketing and Management
- Investment Analysis
- Livestock Management
- Loan Analysis
- Risk Management
- Yield and Land Database
This program calculates Agricultural Risk Coverage for County Coverage (ARC-CO) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) payments. County yields and market year average (MYA) prices are brought in for a user-specified state-county-crop combination. Users then can change 2018 through 2020 county yields and prices to see ARC-CO and PLC payments under those yields and prices.
This program calculates premiums, evaluates insurance payments, and provides historical data useful when making crop insurance decisions for multiple crops. Estimates are for crops in midwest and southeast states that are harvested in 2020.…
Calculates premiums, evaluates insurance payments, and provides historical data useful when making crop insurance decisions for crops in states that are harvested in 2019.
Calculates premiums, evaluates insurance payments, and provides historical data useful when making crop insurance decisions for multiple crops. Estimates are for crops in states that are harvested in 2020.…
Prepares monthly pro-forma cash flows for an operation.
Calculates maximum bid prices for farmland and sensitivity to terms.
Compares lease vs. purchase alternatives and calculates the terms to make the options equivalent in NPV.
Designed to assist with common computations related to the Illinois Soil Productivity measures and associated predicted yields.
Evaluates the feasibility of purchasing a grain bin.
Simulate the performance of a dry mill ethanol plant over a 7-year period
Estimates costs of production across farm enterprises.
Used to access historic crop yield data for corn, soybeans, and wheat; sortable by state total, county level, and NASS crop reporting district.
Worksheet to compute net present value, compare price and terms, evaluate IRR and MIRR for basic capital budgeting/investment analysis programs.
The miscanthus and swithgrass budget tool provides estimates of the breakeven price of biomass that the producer would need to receive each year to match the returns earned under their current land use.
Provides an estimate of the separation of earned net worth and valuation of market valuation equity.
The corn stover budget tool provides estimates of the breakeven price of that the producer would need to receive to cover the costs associated with the harvesting, collection, and storage of the stover.
Calculates the cost of feed rations for beef cattle, as well as net income produced per cwt., per cow, and per farm after all costs.
With this program, the user can estimate the amount of CO2 equivalent emissions released from their farming practices and calculate potential carbon sequestration payments for conservation practices.
Enables the user to: 1) estimate the future distributions of corn and soybean, 2) calculate breakeven prices for storage and compare to projections, and 3) compare net returns of delivering grain to alternative locations and/or months.
Simple loan amortization program calculating principal, interest and outstanding balance.
Calculates breakeven prices for a dairy operation including group feed cost summaries. A net income summary on a per cwt, per cow, and per farm basis after all costs is also generated.
The user can calculate, monitor, and evaluate the nearby basis, as well as cash and nearby futures prices for corn and soybeans in a given year.
Inventory accounting system to track grain inventory from harvest to sale.
With this program, the user can calculate the per unit cost of energy and crude protein with the cost of the feed ingredients on an as-fed basis.
Approximates accrual income from schedule F.
Estimates deferred taxes for financial statement preparation.
Contains a worksheet that allows setting of parameters of cash rent with bonus leasing arrangements. The worksheet then calculates cash rents under alternative prices and yields.
With this program, the user can enter budgets and calculate break even levels for a set of specialty commodities.
Calculates how savings accumulates over time and the amount of savings needed to achieve specific targets.
The user can estimate the cash needs required to meet living, debt and investment payments.
With this program, the user can project earnings, financial conditions, and break even levels and prices
Calculates annualized cash flows for different methods of financing machinery acquisitions.
Prepares a quarterly cash flow projection and performs sensitivity analysis.
Prepares a family budget that produces a balance sheet and an income statement.
Computes interest rate factors and solves basic time value of money problems.
With this program, the user can: 1) estimate the costs of planting corn and soybeans by planting date, 2) estimate the net returns from replanting, 3) prevented planting payments, and 4) compare crop rotations. As an alternative to the executable tool you can download the spreadsheet here.…
Evaluates the potential operating loan needs of a farm business by taking a forward look at the business? income, expenses, and cash flow requirements.
Prepares financial statements for a farm based on beginning and ending balance sheets and revenue and expense items.
This program calculates per-acre budgets for different crops and a whole farm budget and includes breakevens. Projected financial statements and return sensitivities are available. The effects of farm level crop insurance and hedging can be analyzed.…
Compares terms across different loans and evaluates the benefits of refinancing.
Analyzes the cost of completing fieldwork and generates machinery costs.
Calculates tax depreciation schedules for depreciable items.
Calculates principal and interest balances for revolving loans.
Calculates revenues, costs, and returns for share rent, cash rent, and dry bushel farmland leases.
With this program, the user can estimate the impact alternative risk management strategies have on gross revenue distributions.
Calculates premiums, evaluates insurance payments, and provides historical data useful when making crop insurance decisions for multiple crops. Estimates are for crops in states that are harvested in 2016.
Calculates premiums, evaluates insurance payments, and provides historical data useful when making crop insurance decisions for multiple crops. Estimates are for crops in states that are harvested in 2016.
Calculates premiums, evaluates insurance payments, and provides historical data useful when making crop insurance decisions for multiple crops. Estimates are for crops in states that are harvested in 2017.
Calculates premiums, evaluates insurance payments, and provides historical data useful when making crop insurance decisions for multiple crops. Estimates are for crops in states that are harvested in 2017.
Calculates premiums, evaluates insurance payments, and provides historical data useful when making crop insurance decisions for multiple crops. Estimates are for crops in states that are harvested in 2018.
Calculates premiums, evaluates insurance payments, and provides historical data useful when making crop insurance decisions for multiple crops. Estimates are for crops in states that are harvested in 2018.
This program calculates per-acre budgets for different crops and a whole farm budget and includes breakevens. Projected financial statements and return sensitivities are available. The effects of farm level crop insurance and hedging can be analyzed.