Growers leaving Farmbrite for a poultry-specific system usually know exactly which reports their decisions run on — and the migration succeeds or fails on reproducing those reports in the new record. Name them first: which figures, which periods, which comparisons. If the new system's first month of output matches what the old reports gave you, the migration is complete; if it does not, the missing report shape is named and added before the next placement. This page covers that report-repointing method for growers considering the switch from Farmbrite, the staged cutover, and what the new record produces. It makes no claims about Farmbrite's features — the report inventory is yours to run against your own account.
The Report Inventory
| Report Question | What To Bring To The Migration |
|---|---|
| Which reports do decisions actually run on? | Most operations habitively use two or three — name them explicitly. The migration must reproduce those; everything else is archive, not migration. |
| What figures does each report carry? | Per-report list: which numbers, which periods, which comparisons. This becomes the verification checklist for the new system's first output. |
| What does the export contain? | Pull an export while you still have full access and check whether the report figures come with it — or only the raw rows underneath. |
| Who else reads the reports? | If a partner, lender, or integrator liaison sees your reports, their expectations decide whether the new output is accepted without re-explanation. |
The Staged Cutover
The migration follows the cluster standard (the migration hub covers it fully): start at a clean boundary — a new flock placement or the first of a month; seed the active flock's current state; move finance history through the finance CSV import where rows exist (Growth plan and above); re-point the named reports in the new system and verify the first month's output against the old numbers; keep Farmbrite read-only for one cycle; verify at the first settlement compared line-by-line against the new record. The Excel guide covers the same report-repointing discipline for workbook-based operations.
What the New Record Produces
Computed reports instead of maintained ones: growth against the growth chart, FCR per flock benchmarked by age per the FCR guide, cost per bird from per-flock expenses, and the profitability dashboard across flocks. The app comparison covers how these outputs weigh against other systems; the budget template runs on the finance data from the first placement after the boundary.
Frequently Asked Questions
What if a named report cannot be reproduced in the new system?
Then keep the old system read-only for that report's archive and decide whether the gap is decision-critical or archival. The buyers checklist covers how to weigh an unreproducible report.
How do I verify the migration before committing fully?
Run the first month's reports in both systems and compare the named figures line by line. Match, and the migration is done; miss, and the missing shape is named and added — the settlement comparison extends the same discipline to the payout.
What about records made in Farmbrite after the boundary?
Nothing goes backward — the old system stays read-only as archive; new records live in the new system going forward. The migration hub covers the archive approach.
- 2026-10-06: Comprehensive rewrite as an honest report-repointing migration guide — report inventory table, staged cutover reference, and no competitor feature claims — replacing the earlier version with fabricated first-person claims.
- Earlier version: first-person narrative about switching from Farmbrite.