The Benefits Of Using A Farm-management Information System

By: Laurie Bedord

When Paul Overby returned to his family’s North Dakota farm in 1993, he realized his operation would need a good set of records in order to manage the nearly 1,800 acres it covered.

“I had my own computer and spreadsheet software, and I’d been using Money Counts for personal budget and finance,” he says. “I adapted MC to farming by creating suitable accounts, and it worked reasonably well.”