Financial Solutions: Simplify Records

Dairy farmers Patti and Russell Scott with Farm Credit’s Amy Nemitz (r).

P & R Farms includes a 70-cow dairy and 400 acres of forage, soybeans and grain corn. Owners Patti and Russell Scott work with Farm Credit financial service representative Amy Nemitz and loan officer John Fressenden. Russell and Patti shared their CenterPoint accounting software experience with Financial Partners magazine:

“I bought my first farm land when I was 16,” said Russell. Patti and I started our dairy in 1991. While our sons, Mark and Matt, help after work occasionally, most of the time it is just Patti and me, by ourselves. We enjoy farming, but time is a concern for us."

“We needed an ag-specific accounting program that was ready
to go,” said Patti. “Farm Credit recommended CenterPoint and we transitioned easily. Farm records are done so quickly it doesn’t seem like I should be done. It is wonderful.”

“While Patti kept excellent records before, now we get specific comparisons in seconds,” said Russell. “With CenterPoint, we get better information more quickly and easily. So, we question decisions more often. The value of any records program is what you do with the information.”