Reports

The Reports tab pulls together everything you've entered across the app and turns it into charts and summaries you can actually use. There are eight report sub-tabs, each covering a different area of the operation.

Herd report

The Herd report shows how your livestock numbers have changed over time. It answers the question: "Is my herd growing, stable, or going backwards?"

What you'll see:

• Total head count charted over time (monthly or yearly snapshots)
• Breakdown by livestock class — how many cows, calves, yearlings, weaners
• Per-farm breakdown if you run multiple properties
• Mob composition at a point in time

This report draws from the herd audit trail — every time you update a number in the Numbers tab, BlackCow records it, and the Herd report charts those changes.

Financial report

The Financial report summarises your cattle sale revenue. It only includes confirmed sales from the Sales tab.

What you'll see:

• Total net proceeds by year and by month
• Revenue broken down by livestock class — yearling steers vs weaner heifers vs cull cows, etc.
• Average $/head by class, so you can track whether you're getting better or worse prices over time
• Revenue split by farm if you run multiple properties

Calving report

The Calving report tracks your calving percentage — the number of calves raised as a percentage of cows joined.

What you'll see:

• Calving percentage by season and year
• A benchmark line at 85% — this is a commonly used target for northern and central Queensland beef herds. Your target may differ depending on your country and breeding system.
• Trend over multiple seasons — is your calving rate improving or declining?

This report draws from your calving records (created at the end of each calving season) and your cow numbers from the Numbers tab.

Calving timing by paddock

The season percentage only tells you how many cows calved in the end. It doesn't show when, and that's what decides how even your calves are at sale. The Calving Timing by Paddock section at the top of the report shows it.

• The chart has one line per calving paddock: the percentage of its cows that have calved by each date. A line further to the right is calving later — and later calves are lighter and smaller come sale time.
• The table lists each paddock with its cows, calves born, percentage calved, the date of its first calf, the date it reached 50%, and how far along it was at the same point last year.
• Shelter and Water are shown beside each paddock. Set them in Land → Paddocks (edit a paddock) so you can see whether the late paddocks are the ones with less shelter or a different water source.
• The season picker switches between years that have calf counts.

Calves born = the calves alive you entered in Calf Logging plus the deaths recorded so far. A blank count is treated as "not counted", not zero. Cows are the paddock's current count for the season in progress, or the count saved when you pressed Calving Complete for earlier seasons.

Marking report

The Marking report summarises your annual marking (branding) seasons. It draws from records entered in the Marking tab.

What you'll see:

• Total calves marked per year
• Steer and heifer totals and percentages
• Year-on-year trend

If you compare the marking totals against your calving records, you get a feel for marking mortality — the calves you had at birth versus the calves that made it through to marking age.

Rainfall report

The Rainfall report gives you a long-term picture of how much rain your property has received. It draws from both your manual rain gauge entries and your connected weather stations.

What you'll see:

• Monthly rainfall totals — how each month compares to the same month in previous years
• Annual totals charted year by year
• Seasonal pattern — which months are reliably wet or dry on your country
• Per-farm breakdowns if your properties have separate rainfall records

Treatment report

The Treatment report helps you stay on top of withholding period (WHP) and export slaughter interval (ESI) obligations after chemical treatments.

What you'll see:

• Active WHP/ESI alerts — cattle that are currently in a withholding period and cannot be sold. These are highlighted prominently so you don't accidentally draft treated animals for sale.
• Treatment history by product — what you've used, how much, on which mobs
• Treatments approaching the end of their WHP/ESI — when they'll be clear to sell

Land report

The Land report covers everything you've done to the land itself — spraying, fertiliser applications, and known weed patches.

What you'll see:

• Spray events by paddock and product
• Weed patches recorded on the farm map — which weeds, which paddocks
• Fertiliser jobs by paddock — what product, what rate, when it was applied

This is useful for NRM (Natural Resource Management) record-keeping and for planning your chemical program — you can see which paddocks have been treated, when, and with what.

Events report

The Events report is a calendar view of everything that's happened or is scheduled on your farm.

What you'll see:

• Upcoming events for the next 30, 60, or 90 days
• All past events for a selected year
• Events filtered by type — all vet visits, all musters, all spray days
• Frequency summary — how many of each type of event per year

This report is handy for annual planning. Looking at what happened each month last year helps you prepare for the same jobs this year.

FY Livestock (year-end tax figures)

Once a year your accountant needs your cattle numbers and dollars for the tax return. Reports → FY Livestock pulls them together for a financial year (1 July to 30 June).

1. Pick the financial year with the arrows. Opening stock carries forward from last year's saved figures; the first year you type it in from your accountant's summary.
2. Check the closing head by class, then Save & Finalise. Do this on or just after 30 June, because the closing numbers are pre-filled from today's Stock Numbers.
3. Under the head count, the Livestock Schedule card shows the same layout your accountant uses, headed with the farm's trading name from Setup → Farms: sales, cost of sales, deaths, closing stock, gross profit and average cost per head.
4. Tap Print / Save as PDF or Copy for Accountant and send it on.

The dollars come from a few settings on the schedule: last year's closing stock value (the opening value), the natural increase value per head ($20 is the standard for cattle), killed for rations, and which sales figure to use. Sales are counted as the money that reached the bank, less the GST in it, which is what your accountant books. If the agent takes other bills off the cheque (for example a fertiliser invoice), enter that amount under Paid out of the proceeds on the sale. Sales behind the total lists each sale so you can tick it off against your accountant's figure; a ⚠ marks a sale close to 30 June, which may be booked in the next year.