Know your profit on every animal.
A simple cost book for farms selling beef, pork, lamb, and goat directly to customers. Track every expense by animal, create the customer invoice, and see your actual margin when it sells.
Track costs. Calculate the sale. Send the invoice. Know your margin.
No credit card required.
A record book that does the arithmetic
The notebook in the truck console works fine. Right up until you want to know whether that steer made money.
Every cost, on the right animal
Enter purchase price, feed, hay, veterinary, mineral, and processing costs as they happen. TakeStock assigns each cost to the right animal instead of leaving a pile to sort through in February.
Have one feed bill for the whole pen? Split the cost evenly or allocate it based on the days each animal was actually there. TakeStock works out the cost per head.
Halves, quarters, and who bought them
A direct meat sale happens in steps. The buyer commits first, but the final amount may not be known until the hanging weight comes back.
- 1Agree on the portion and price: whole, half, quarter, or eighth; flat price or price per pound hanging weight.
- 2Reserve the buyer and processing date. Per-pound sales stay open without requiring you to guess the final amount.
- 3Enter the hanging weight. TakeStock calculates every buyer's final balance automatically.
- 4Get paid. Mark the sale paid or send the customer an invoice from your phone.
Weights and gain
Log weights whenever you have them. Follow total gain and average daily gain, and see the hanging-weight price you need to break even.
Straight answers at tax time
Get a cash-basis income and expense summary organized around common Schedule F categories, with raised livestock separated from purchased livestock. Give your tax preparer cleaner records without sorting through a year of receipts.
TakeStock is a bookkeeping aid, not a substitute for professional tax advice.
Priced the way you actually sell
Agree on $4.25 per pound hanging before the processing date. When the hanging weight comes back, enter it once. TakeStock calculates every buyer's final balance and the actual net on the animal.
Built by a small farmer
I raise livestock and sell meat directly to local families. I built TakeStock because I could tell you what an animal sold for, but not always what I actually made after feed, processing, and all the other costs. TakeStock is the simple record book I wanted for my own farm.
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Track costs, close out a sale, and see the profit on an animal before paying anything.
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