Systems for agribusiness
Hedge is the operations and accounting system for African agribusiness. The herd, the flock, the crop, the feed store, the payroll and the books are one record — so the cost of a batch is a number the system already knows, not a weekend in a spreadsheet.
Rwanda · field vs breed standard
2024–2026
Running live
Farm Creek Ltd raises pigs and poultry and grows banana across two sites in Rwanda's Eastern Province, and runs its daily operations and its statutory accounts on Hedge. Every capability on this page is in use, in the field, today.
The ground you farm
We read the surveys, the strategies and the breed manuals before writing a word of this page. Some of what we found is uncomfortable — Rwanda's poultry statistics disagree with each other by a factor of six, and the 2026 press figures for egg output turn out to be the government's own planning targets reported as achievements. So every number below is attributed, and where sources conflict we say which one we chose.
1,006,890 head nationally
Ninety to ninety-five per cent of farms are smallholdings of one or two sows, slaughter slabs keep no records at all, and a single cysticercosis cyst costs RWF 5,000 — twenty to forty per cent of a medium pig's value. PSTA 5 raises compulsory pig registration from 50% in 2024/25 to 90% by 2028/29.
1,272,783 birds · 33% of the flock
Rwanda produced 112,856,811 eggs last survey year and sold 68% of them, so the market is not the problem either. Purchased birds outnumber home-hatched ones eight to one, which means almost every layer on a Rwandan farm arrived with a performance specification attached. The management data is the constraint.
240,711 birds · 6.2% of the flock
A bird that takes forty-five days to reach a weight its breed sheet reaches on day thirty-five has eaten ten extra days of feed to get somewhere it was already going. Almost nobody measures it — because measuring it needs daily weights and daily feed issues against the same house.
A herd, a batch, a feed issue and a mortality event are the same four records whatever is eating the feed, and Hedge is built on those primitives rather than on pigs and chickens specifically. But no Hedge customer runs cattle, fish, rabbit or bees today, and we have no Rwandan benchmark data for them worth publishing. If you run one of those, come and talk to us about being the first — and expect us to say so plainly rather than show you a screen that does not exist.
What the gap is worth
This is not a savings estimate and Hedge is not in it. It is the published Rwandan figure set against the published breed figure, multiplied by your flock — the size of the prize, before anyone sells you anything. Every input names its source, and the two inputs that are assumptions rather than citations are marked as such and left for you to change.
The gap, on your flock, for one cycle—
| What is measured | Rwanda today | The standard | Gap | On your flock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birds lost over the cycle MINAGRI works from a 20% national baseline. The breed manual calls 5–7% normal, so we use the kinder 7%. | 20%MINAGRI 2024–29 | 7%Lohmann Brown-Classic | 13 points | — |
| Eggs never laid Rwandan field yield is measured to 90 weeks and the breed objective to 100, so this understates nothing — those ten weeks cost feed too. | 360 eggsISA Brown in Rwanda, 2019 | 476 eggsISA Brown objective | 116 per hen | — |
| The gap, on your flock, for one cycle | — | |||
For scale: at the breed's own 112 g a day, your flock eats — of feed every day, or — a week. Feed is about 70% of the cost of keeping poultry in Rwanda, so a week of wastage nobody noticed is the whole margin.
Feed per cycle, plus the missing cycles' margin over a year—
| What is measured | Rwanda today | The standard | Gap | On your flock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feed spent buying weight the genetics already delivered Cobb's own table: 3,635 g of cumulative feed at day 35, 5,100 g at day 42. The difference is 1.465 kg per bird, for a week that added nothing a Rwandan house did not already have. | 42–45 daysRwandan slaughter age, 2019 | 35 daysCobb 500 at 2,521 g | 1.465 kg/bird | — |
| Cycles the year has room for Assumes ten days of cleaning and downtime between placements — that number is ours, not a citation, so change it if your turnaround differs. | 6.6 a yearat a 45-day grow-out | 8.1 a yearat a 35-day grow-out | 1.5 cycles | — |
| Feed per cycle, plus the missing cycles' margin over a year | — | |||
Margin per bird is taken at RWF 1,000, which is CASA's own figure for a bird sold at RWF 3,000 — not ours. Change the feed price above and watch which row moves: that is the row worth instrumenting first.
Marked inputs are assumptions, not citations. Feed at RWF 700/kg comes from Rwandan trade press in early 2026 and is the softest number on this page — put your last invoice in instead. Everything unmarked is traceable to a named survey, strategy document or breed manual; the full list, including the figures we found and deliberately refused to publish, is summarised on the evidence page.
What it runs
Most farms run production in a notebook and finance in a spreadsheet, and the two never meet. In Hedge the operational record is the accounting record — a bag of feed leaving the store is both a stock movement and a journal entry, posted once.
Livestock
Every animal with its parentage, weight log, average daily gain and feed conversion. Breeding calendar, farrowings, automatic stage transitions, and mortality that reconciles against head count instead of drifting from it.
Land
Blocks and plots, planting through harvest, input applications that draw stock down as they are recorded, and yield booked against the land that produced it.
Inputs
Ration formulas over an ingredient library, procurement and deliveries, issues to a named house or pen — so feed consumed can be set against the weight it bought.
Finance
A proper chart of accounts and double-entry journal behind every record, with an IFRS-aligned statement pack, budget versus actual, AR and AP aging, bank and capital reconciliation, and an inter-farm account between sites.
People
Payroll runs that write to the ledger on approval, so labour lands in the cost of the batch that used it rather than in a lump at month end.
Reporting
Management reports and a full statement pack, exported to PDF, Excel or CSV under your own letterhead — with every figure drilling through to the records behind it.
The market you sell into
Rwandan food inflation is the mildest major component in the basket. Everything a farm buys is not. That is the squeeze, in one line: you are absorbing energy and transport at four and six times the rate you can pass on at the farm gate.
NISR consumer price index, June 2026 · exchange rate from a daily public feed · rings drawn proportionally on a 0–50% scale · curated 1 August 2026
One number is missing here on purpose. There is no current published Rwandan egg price. The WFP series ends in 2015 and FEWS NET carries no eggs at all — so the thing a layer farm actually sells is, nationally, unmeasured. Every farm we have worked with knows its own gate price to the franc and can produce it in seconds; the country cannot. That asymmetry is the whole argument for keeping the record, and it is why we would rather show you an absence than an invented figure.
Who it is for
Why it exists Software written for a farm in Iowa assumes the connectivity, the currency and the paperwork of a farm in Iowa. Hedge was written on a farm in Rwanda, against the problems that farm actually has. Hedge · Kigali, Rwanda
Access
Hedge is onboarding its next operations deliberately, one at a time. Tell us what you run and we will walk you through the live system — the actual herd, the actual ledger — and then talk about yours.