Thursday, March 18, 2010

Award-Winning Shop

Behind every successful farming operation you'll likely find a an efficient and "well-oiled" shop. FBS mega-user, Dykhuis Farms, Holland, MI, recently won the shops category of Farm Journal Magazine's "I Built the Best" contest. Read the story and see the facility where Dykhuis employees maintain 140 pieces of equipment online at:

http://www.agweb.com/FarmJournal/current/Article.aspx?id=156500

Incidentally, farm shops create all kinds of accounting challenges ranging from asset tracking to inventory control to labor logging to cost allocations. We'd like to hear more on how our users manage their shops. Do you treat your shop as a cost center or profit center? What software do you use for maintenance records? Are you generating job tickets or using time cards? What metrics do you use to benchmark efficiency?

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