Agriculture - Dairy Template

Dairy Yield Metrics

Average Milk Yield
Total Milk Yield
Average KG milksolids per Cow
Average KG milksolids per Hectare

Overview

Spotlight has two agriculture specific templates; Dairy and Livestock.

The Agriculture - Dairy template combines some of the key metrics dairy agriculture businesses should focus on. These metrics are split across the Dairy Debt Metrics and Dairy Yield Metrics pages in Spotlight.

To make the most of the template, you will need to:

Source non-financial data.
Assign specific report codes to key accounts
Evaluate the formulae and customise using the formula builder if necessary.
Note: Some Dairy businesses may measure these metrics differently due to seasonality, setup of accounts or other factors.

Non-financial data required

Most agriculture metrics require financial and non-financial data. Therefore, you will need to collate and enter the following non-financial information into Spotlight:

Volume - Milk yield
Stock - Number of cows
Weight - Milksolids in kg
Size - Number of hectares

You can manually enter the data into the non-financial tab under Customise Data. Alternatively, enter the data into this Excel template and import it into Spotlight using the Excel import function on the Import tab.

Assign specific report codes to key accounts

Most report codes needed for the template are automatically assigned by Spotlight. However, for the metrics to calculate correctly you may need to assign some report codes manually. To do this, open Customise Data and locate the following accounts, then to assign the specified report code click the report code button: