Standardizing accounting practices for any industry can be incredibly difficult. In farming especially, there are countless variables that can severely impact the production numbers of a farm—everything from the vagaries of natural weather patterns to soil quality, crop/livestock genetic factors, and the availability of labor at an affordable cost.
Agriculture accounting needs to account for all of these variables and standardized, “Big Bucket” accounting solutions and practices often fail to, well, account for these variables and the impact they can have on farm operations.
