The Purchases reports display in various ways the projected expenditures for acquiring livestock in the coming years including the month by month cash outflow for the year ahead.

Ranch Vision allows you to view purchases broken out by species, total dollar amount per month, or estimated total outflows for each of the next five years.

These reports enable you to foresee and prepare for one of the most challenging areas of cash liquidity faced by the ranch. By looking at the projections found in the reports one can foresee impending issues and prepare for them by either using Ranch Vision to adjust the purchasing schedule to more closely match expected cash inflow or by pursuing alternatives such as credit or management shifts that reduce the frequency and need for such purchases. Alternatives may include more dependence on ranch raised replacements and/or cooperative trades of breeding bulls, rams or bucks, etc.