For Bankers, CPAs & Attorneys
A briefing for the professionals who serve ranch families
If you work with ranch families, here is what True Range Ag does, how it fits alongside your work, and where it stops.
The Gap
The gap this fills
A ranch's lender is concerned with repayment. Its accountant watches the tax implication. Its financial advisor attends to the money off the ranch. But whose job is it to make it all fit together: the cows, equipment, infrastructure, and land that each should be creating value?
That's the work True Range Ag does. There's no such thing as a non-cash expense. Everything costs something to acquire, needs to create value, and eventually be replaced. True Range Ag can help with that.
Services
What I do with your clients
Set-price engagement
Ranch numbers
A set-price engagement for a specific decision or for getting the basics in order.
- Whole-business budgeting and cash flow
- Enterprise analysis
- Fixed-cost analysis
- Individual projects, improvements, and strategic or operational changes
The full practice
Cattleman's Capital
The full practice for cow-calf and stocker operations, connecting day-to-day operating decisions with long-term capital needs.
- An honest picture of where the money comes from and goes
- A simple structure that separates running the ranch from building it
- Replacement money for bulls, equipment, and infrastructure set aside before it's needed
- Multi-year analysis of culling, replacement, and equipment decisions through a drought, a hard winter, or a big repair
Working Together
How I work alongside you
I don't replace a client's banker, accountant, attorney, or financial advisor. With the client's permission, I give you the same clear picture of the operation that they'll have, so everyone at the table works from the same numbers.
What I don't do
- Investment advice
- Tax preparation or tax advice
- Legal work
- Bookkeeping
- Livestock marketing
The Advisor
About Chris Jorgensen
- 15 years in large-scale and family ranching operations
- Master of Agribusiness, Kansas State University
- A stockman and grazier first
Referrals
Have a client who could use this?
Call or email. A first conversation with the owner is a chance to see whether the work fits; every operation is scoped and priced to fit after that.
(406) 679-2024