Know the Numbers That Drive Your Legacy
Farm Financial Management Coaching
True farm leadership means never making decisions in the dark. Our financial coaches help you move from simply hoping for a good year to understanding profitability over the next few years.
Helping You Pivot in January To Prevent Panic in July
As an operator, you might not fully understand your break-evens or profitability until it’s too late to act on that information. Without clear financial visibility, you won’t realize you’re facing a cash shortage until July. But by then, you may be forced into reactive decisions that limit your options and your outcomes.
The financial coaches at UnCommon Farms give you the foresight to run accurate budgets and forecasts before the year unfolds. When you understand your numbers in real time, you can identify where adjustments need to be made in January, long before a small problem becomes a crisis.
Find Out How You Stack Up
One of the most powerful advantages of UnCommon Farms membership is what you gain access to beyond your own four walls. Our members benefit from a suite of proprietary tools and an exclusive peer network that simply can’t be replicated anywhere else.
Exclusive Benchmarking
How does your operation actually compare to other high-performing farms? As a member, you gain access to proprietary benchmarking data that allows you to safely compare your financial performance against a network of your peers. Identify where you’re excelling, uncover where opportunity exists, and set growth targets grounded in real-world data rather than guesswork.
Historical Performance Analysis (HPA)
The trends shaping your farm’s future are already hidden in your past. With a Historical Performance Analysis, we dig deep into your operation’s financial history to surface patterns and insights you may have never seen before. We then use that data as the foundation for building accurate forecasts and projections, so your planning reflects where you’re actually headed, not just where you’ve been.
Key Performance Indicators
Running a high-performing farm doesn’t demand hundreds of data points. It just requires tracking the right ones. We distill your financials down to the 8 to 10 critical key metrics that every successful farm operation must monitor, helping you cut through the noise, invest profits intentionally, and drive sustainable growth with confidence.
A Unified Farm Strategy That Goes Beyond a CFO
A standard financial consultant looks at your numbers in isolation. They hand you a report and move on. As a member of UnCommon Farms, your financial coach works as part of your full advisory team by evaluating your financials through the lens of how they’ll directly impact your employee compensation strategy, your operational goals, and your long-term succession plan.
Unlike a traditional advisory relationship, membership means you don’t just receive a strategy. You get side-by-side implementation and ongoing accountability to ensure it actually gets executed.
Stop Guessing and Start Leading Your Farm
Gain the financial visibility required to confidently transition from daily operator to the CEO of a high-performing farm and make smarter decisions faster.
More Than Coaching: A Complete Business Advantage
Membership in UnCommon Farms extends beyond your coaching relationship. These are the exclusive resources and benefits that come with being part of the community.
Strategic Industry Partners
The Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Exclusive Training & Webinars
Farm Success Stories
UnCommon Farms has helped us understand and manage a scaling business that is sustainable into the future all the way to succession planning. Figuring out education pieces for our employees and our team. Areas of continuous improvement.
Kyle Mehmen
MBS Family Farms
I think we know what the end goal is now more than we ever have. I think we understand what it’s going to take to get there, and we have plans we’re putting into place that will allow us to accomplish our goals as a family—of growing and bringing back the next generation.
Larna Fidler
Schnitker Farms
UnCommon Farms gives the older generation confidence in the younger generation’s management, and I think it makes that transition easier for the older generation.
Rich Bronec
R&R Bronec Grain and Cattle
We needed to change the way we ran our business. Instead of working in the business more, we had to work on it. If you have the next generation coming along and you’ve always just been the operator or the patriarch of the farm, being part of UnCommon Farms has so many benefits. There’s not only the resources; there’s the networking, there’s peer-to-peer conversations you can have. There’s a way to better your business.
Joel Abeln
Abeln Farms
We’re into this for four years now, and I’ll be honest, I’m more excited now than I was at the beginning… The more you put into it, the more you get out. The more you commit to it, the more that you follow, the bigger connections you make… I think it helps us take our operation to the next level.
Robert Ensor
Ensor Brothers Farms
With UnCommon Farms, we have these connections to other farmers and other communities who we can rely on to share those experiences and those learning moments, so we don’t have to make those mistakes the first time around.
Emma Purvis
E&H Farms
Financial Coaching FAQ
How is financial coaching inside membership different from hiring a financial consultant?
A standalone consultant analyzes your numbers and hands you a report. That’s where the engagement ends. Inside membership, your financial coach is part of your full advisory team, working alongside your business, HR, and succession coaches so your financial strategy stays connected to every other decision your operation is making. The analysis doesn’t sit in a folder. It drives real action across your entire farm.
What does financial coaching actually look like on a day-to-day basis?
It’s not a quarterly check-in where someone reviews last month’s statements. Your coach works with you on live budgets, real-time forecasting, and the financial decisions that are in front of you right now. The goal is to get you operating proactively, making adjustments before a crisis forces your hand.
Will my financial coach understand agriculture specifically?
Every coach at UnCommon Farms operates within an organization that brings over 1,000 years of combined agricultural experience. That means they understand farm-specific depreciation, commodity revenue cycles, and the financial volatility that comes with this industry. You won’t spend time explaining how your operation works before you can get useful advice.
Can I access financial coaching without a full membership?
Financial coaching is a core pillar of UnCommon Farms membership and is not available as a standalone service. That’s intentional. The coaching only works because it’s connected to your broader strategy. Delivering it in isolation would mean handing you financial guidance with no context around your people, your succession timeline, or your operational goals. If you’re not ready for membership, our standalone financial consulting services are a strong starting point.
How does membership financial coaching handle benchmarking?
As a member, you gain access to proprietary benchmarking data that lets you compare your financial performance against a network of high-performing peers, safely and confidentially. Most operators have no idea where they actually stand relative to other serious producers. Benchmarking removes the guesswork and gives you an honest baseline to build from.
What's the path from standalone consulting to full membership?
Many operators start with a standalone engagement, an HPA, a lender prep session, or a targeted margin analysis, and use that as a diagnostic. Once you’ve seen what your financial data can surface, the natural next step is building a strategy around it. Membership is where that strategy gets executed with accountability, integration, and a full coaching team behind it.
Let’s Build a Financially Resilient Legacy
Join a high-performing community dedicated to outpacing the industry. When your numbers are clear, your strategy is clear, and you can be confident your operation is built to last for generations to come.