FBS Systems, founded in 1980, has been a pioneer in developing farm management software designed specifically for agricultural enterprises. Headquartered in Aledo, Illinois, FBS has focused on providing financial and production management solutions that help farmers make data-driven decisions. Over the years, the company has expanded its offerings to include specialized tools for accounting, inventory management, and precision agriculture, aiming to support the evolving needs of modern farming operations. Today, MASA continues to innovate with the FBS platform, providing cloud-based solutions for farmers.
FBS’s integrated ERP software empowers you to track inventories, costs, and manage every aspect of your operation. From soil to sale, it captures opportunities and profits, so you can rest easy at night.
FBS’s livestock accounting software integrates seamlessly with feeding and herd management tools, allowing you to track costs, feeding efficiency, and herd performance in real time. This powerful connection gives you the data needed to make precise financial and operational decisions that drive profitability across your livestock operation.
We help farmers, farm managers, and agricultural accountants maximize profitability through integrated agricultural software systems, consulting, and training.
Our proven Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software for farm management integrates your production, operations, and financial activities so you can coordinate and maximize profitability across every aspect of your farm or ranch. Plus, we partner with leading data collection and vertical software vendors to provide an automated, real-time, comprehensive farm management solution.
Let our team of farm accounting experts help your farm managers learn to successfully analyze and maximize ranch and farm profitability using our farm management software solution. With on-site and remote training, support and consulting packages, we’ll help you customize the flexible FBS data platform to adapt to the scale and complexity of your business and achieve your information management goals.
Our expertise and thought leadership transforms farmers into more sophisticated, profitable managers. The industry leader in ag accounting, we provide deep cost accounting and managing reporting software based on Farm Financial Standards that empowers ag producers with actionable insights in the age of big data.
Employ a flexible management reporting system with a complete cash/accrual general ledger that integrates with 16 other FBS modules.
Improve profitability with this complete crop management system that includes inventory control, production records and analysis with efficient data entry features.
Trace animal inventories and track feed movement by ration between stages, locations and groups. Includes feed/livestock inventory control, production analysis and planning.
Create projections quickly with this interactive database software that enables planning and performance monitoring. Designed to tightly integrate with the FBS management information suite.
Create offsetting A/P and A/R entries between FBS data files, maintain a “master” chart of accounts, print consolidated income statements and balance sheets with eliminations columns.
Obtain high security checks and multipurpose middle checks, along with a variety of envelope styles, all in one place.
Create professional invoices and statements for your customers and landlords. Like the AP module, AR enables both cash and accrual reporting.
Switch to an economical farm accounting system designed for less-complex operations.
(ACH Banking)
Create online ACH e-payments and go green by eliminating checks, envelopes and stamps.
Schedule payments, batch-print checks and generate accrual reports without sacrificing cash-basis tax reporting.
Track piecework, overtime, bonuses, accrued vacation days, pension plans and more with the most flexible ag payroll package on the market.
Conveniently maintain the TransAction Plus balance sheet by recording assets and inventories with supporting schedules rather than accounting entries.
Track cash or future contract status for crops, livestock and inputs with a system that seamlessly integrates with TransAction Plus purchases/sales and reports positions in Crop Audit, Smart Feeder and more.
Easily scan and link PDF documents to accounting transitions for fast filling and instant recall.
Create custom-design reports along with database queries from TransAction Plus.
Know your true costs and financial position in each segment of your business through automated activity-based costing and work in process adjustments with editions for both crop and livestock operations.
Generate a quick and comprehensive review and adjustment tool for E.CLIPSE allocations. Packaged with the WIP Inventory Change Report.
Create a detailed supporting balance sheet schedule for finished goods, work in process and raw materials inventories with this module that comes packaged with the Standard Cost/Vendor Monitor Report.
Post Market Value adjustments to E.CLIPSE inventories as well as Lower of Cost/Market computations and posting.
Incorporates the specialized accounting and client reporting needs of professional farm management firms and bank farm trust departments.
Record production activity right in the field through the Conservis Mobile App. File all your assets in one place by integrating your FBS financial and inventory records.
Organize and import grain tickets from electronic sales and Excel spreadsheets with this user-friendly interface.
Track important production details with group identification, accounting and reporting. This interface has full integration capability with Smart Feeder and TransAction Plus.
Create custom Smart Feeder closeout reports with 500 pre-calculated measurements designed specifically for finance and production business aspects.
Transfer feed ticket details directly into TransAction Plus Accounts Payable and/or generate Accounts Receivable invoices for feed sales, as well as transfers internally-milled feed into Smart Feeder.
Schedule feed deliveries, monitor group feed budgets and project sales of animals.
Supply full genetic, health and reproductive histories on individual sows, boars and litters through "drill-through" industry-standard reports.
Adapt to proven performance measurements used by other industries to production agriculture. Automatically calculates 28 ratios and indices, including the proprietary "Total Operating Benefit.”
Generate the Farm Financial Standards Council’s “Sweet Sixteen” ratios and indices with ease.
Automatically generate reports that can be instantly accessible in repository and can be easily opened in Excel or web browser.
Provide a real-time “cloud” access to comprehensive production, financial and sales performance metrics – no setup, training or data entry is required.
Import or convert from other programs, importing invoices from vendors or periodic batch entries. Import accounting data, vendors and crop records from spreadsheets or text files.
Get tax forms for W-2s and 1099s and even file 1099s electronically.
Great software comes with great support. To ensure growers are using our software to its maximum potential, we offer various support packages.
Your success is our mission. We work hand-in-hand with our clients to increase farm profitability by mastering our farm management software and reaching their management goals. We offer this service through our staff consultants as well as partnering with agricultural accounting professionals. Services include:
An invitation to our annual AGRICULTURAL SOFTWARE USER CONFERENCE, a great opportunity to learn from farm management, agricultural accounting, and software experts. Network with top farm producers and ag tech experts from across North America.
We back our flexible, integrated farm management software solution with a choice of technical support options to meet your needs. From our more economical Basic Support for occasional users to VIP and Corporate Support for mission-critical, multi-user networks, our state-of-the-art remote desktop service is just like having a support tech in your office!
As farmers, we understand that finding the best tools for the job matters. That’s why our farm management software was designed with your operation in mind. We know the best way to improve your farm profitability and efficiency is through an integrated and holistic farm management solution. From your fields and barns to your back office, our solution aggregates all your data to help you determine the best strategies for management and growth. From farm accounting and payroll to crop audits and livestock tracking, FBS Systems has you covered.
As ag tech evolves, so do the farm management tools at your disposal. Stay up-to-date with what’s new and get tips and strategies to maximize agricultural profitability with our blog and monthly newsletter, FARMSMART.
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"We use this software for multiple enterprises tracking many profit centers annually. The program is complex but simple to use and navigate once set up. In addition, the flexibility the program offers allows us to analyze our operation from different angles. Highly recommend this program for examining whole farm and field financial and production level data. FBS a foundation tool that fuels our farming operation."
Data Driven Growth!
“ This gives us analysis to predict market weights, marketings, cash flow and potential feed use for hedging We link a lot of data together so we can make good decisions and planning. It also helps with financing..”
“I really appreciate the FBS programs that I use almost every day in the research that we are doing here on the farm - so do the people that we are working with.”
My Accountant loves information I can provide with FBS!
"Your program has been with us from Dairying, through Custom Dairy heifer raising, continues to fill all of our needs. Thanks FBS."
"Coming from a software that I had been using since 1995 was a bit challenging, but with the support staff, it has become much easier. Now I am able to design my own reports. Something I couldn't do with my old software."
"At the time I started with FBS, the quality of it's programming was superior to the other programs I researched. My accountant liked the fact that it met Generally Accepted Accounting Standards, my banker liked the Farm Financial Standards, and I liked the way it handled enterprise accounting. I have really appreciated the training opportunities and the quality of the support."
Increased Efficiencies!
“Having our production records and our accounting all integrated together allows us to spend more time to doing things and less time fiddling around doing busy work. We’re able to do what we need to do…”
Perfecting ROI!
“FBS software to me was the best for my operation. I operate 11 entities with 11 different checking accounts. This software enables me to be able to manage those with one system. It has been perfect.”
"Being able to see the schedule F at end of year and know exactly where you stand. We weigh each field and this program makes it very easy to see our net profit on owned and rented acres for each crop. In past years makes it very easy to get yields for crop insurance and the Farm Service Agency for multiple years. Being able to save multiple years and easy to break down a entry for either personnel or Farm Business."
Want to increase profits? Ready to maximize ROI and efficiencies? Interested in growing revenue in addition to crops? We’re ready to help! Just let us know more about you and your needs—and we’ll get you on your path to growth.
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