At Grey Hare Analytics, we refrain from telling you what to do. Instead, we take the time to understand your issues and come up with ways to for you to address your problems. By doing so, we provide you with the tools that you need to fully understand your situation so you can make better, more informed decisions.
Our agricultural services
Click to see an example South Plains cotton budget for 2022.
Budgeting
Tracking the cash inflows and outflows of your operation can help you measure your profitability. You can also use this information to keep your operation on track in the future. Grey Hare can help with anything budget related, from simple budgeting using spreadsheets to complete plans for budgeting using software like SimpleFarms to track expenses, incomes, and margins for the commodities that you produce.
Click to see an example of our insurance analysis spreadsheet.
Insurance Analysis
Insurance is a popular method that producers can use to transfer some of the risk from their operation to an insurance company for a set expense or premium. Grey Hare can help analyze the effectiveness of your current insurance strategy and suggest ways for you to improve your coverage in a cost-effective manner that still leaves you covered. We also monitor new and upcoming insurance policies.
Click to see a glimpse of our cost of production generator spreadsheet.
Cost of Production
Knowing your cost of production, also known as cost per acre or cost per head, can be extremely useful for producers when making important budgeting, marketing, and insurance coverage decisions. Grey Hare can help you track your cost of production for every commodity that you produce and show you how to use this information to improve your decision-making skills and make your operation more efficient.
Click to for an example cotton marketing plan.
Marketing
Having a proper marketing plan is important for producers who want to get the most of out of their commodities while protecting themselves from falling prices. Grey Hare can help you form pre-harvest and post-harvest marketing plans that use your assumptions and our strategies to increase your bottom line while protecting yourself from price risk.
Click to see the first few sections of a full business plan that we put together for MTS.
Operational Plans
Every strategy that your operation uses can be rolled into a complete plan that combines all your efforts into one comprehensive plan, resulting in synergy. Grey Hare can help you outline and form a complete farm plan that can give your operation direction and provide guidance on how to move forward operating as efficiently as possible.
Click to view a sample of cotton basis on the South Plains, which is made using our price and basis data tracker.
Technical Analysis and Seasonal Analysis
Technical and Seasonal Analysis can be used to make timing or production decisions. Grey Hare representatives track and analyze several variables that are related to technical and seasonal. We use things like past events or past trends to give our customers an idea of what the future may hold. Then our customers can use this data to adjust their operation to produce more or less of a commodity, based on possible future trends. We also keep a lengthy log of past prices and basis levels that can be used to help our customers with the timing of their sell decisions.
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Risk Management
Proper risk management can help you ensure that your operation is protected from outside dangers. Risk management is the process of identifying risks and figuring out how to address them. Grey Hare can help you analyze your operation, identify risks, and plan for ways to address risk using methods like avoidance and insurance.
Click for a comprehensive guide over the farm program.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Programs
Grey Hare representatives are skilled at the ins and outs of UDSA programs and can help you understand and navigate FSA, RMA, and NRCS programs. Whether you are interested in something small like getting familiar with the EQIP program or constructing a full plan that manages every aspect of your dealings with all USDA offices, Grey Hare representatives can help. We also offer handouts and booklets that producers can use to educate themselves about the specifics of USDA programs.
Our ag rates
Hourly Consultation
Improved decision making has to start somewhere. Grey Hare is here to provide you with the information that you need to make informed decisions in many areas of agriculture. Whether it is deciding which program is most beneficial to your situation or getting help with your budgeting and cost of production, Grey Hare can help.
60 mins | $105 | Get started
Essential Clients
Having access to unlimited consulting throughout the year can be very useful for producers who need quick access to information and access to someone to handle tasks that are time consuming like keeping up with farm and insurance programs. Grey Hare can help! With the essential level of consulting, you gain access to the Grey Hare team for any ag related issue where you just need more information to make the best decision for your operation.
1 Month | $495 | Get started
Advanced Clients
Producers who choose the advanced level of consulting get unlimited consulting along with a subscription to industry leading budgeting software that can track your cost of production and more. SimpleFarms handles all your budgeting needs from the ease of an application on your cellphone. SimpleFarms also includes a secure webpage where producers can see their cost of production per acre, can calculated their margin, and can even see an estimated break-even price based on the producer’s assumptions for their yield and the price they expect to receive. Producers also receive help and unlimited consulting for the information that is provided by SimpleFarms. This can be useful when making budgeting decisions, marketing decisions, and can even help producers decide how much insurance coverage they will need to be properly protected.
1 Month | $995 | Get started
Premium Clients
The VIP experience; this plan includes all Grey Hare’s services. Producers get all the benefits of the unlimited consulting, SimpleFarms budgeting software, along with complete brokerage services and a Tilly subscription. This means that not only will Grey Hare get you the information that you need to make the right decisions, but we will also make the trades that you decide are necessary to reduce your risk through your marketing plan. By removing the middleman, Grey Hare can make sure that your trades get entered quickly and accurately, all while cutting out the cost of having an independent broker. In addition, the Tilly software lets producers see the impact of their insurance coverage and hedges using easy to read charts and visuals that are produced in real time by the cutting-edge software.
1 Month | $1,495 | Get started
“Using Grey Hare’s services has helped me better track my expenses and estimate my cost of production, which helps with many important decisions around the farm.”
— JOHNNY CROUCH, CLIENT
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We hope that you learn more about agriculture using our website and handouts. This information is intended to be educational only. Please note that we are consultants and educators and not accountants, lawyers, or financial advisors. Do not rely on the information within this website as a substitute for tax, legal, or financial advice. You should always reach out to a professional for tax, legal, and financial advice.