We sat down with Levridge and our Dynamics FSCM Agriculture team recently to discuss this issue in detail. While your legacy agricultural ERP software is doing what it has always done – grinding away at the day-to-day tasks — for many people, the work feels harder than it should.
The answer is hiding in plain sight: the software that got you here might be the very thing preventing you from getting where you want to go. Disconnected systems, siloed data, manual workarounds, and aging on-premises infrastructure are compounding costs and complexity that don’t always show up clearly until you start adding them up.
Want to hear the conversation? Watch the recording of our discussion with Levridge: https://youtu.be/CDjjbPaspVw?si=q7aje6yJZQtNhsWY
The hidden cost of “good enough”
When a CFO has to wait days or weeks for a grain position report, or when your team spends a full week or more closing the books every month, your business is already operating at a disadvantage. These aren’t just inconveniences. They’re direct drags on profitability in an industry where margins are already thin.
Next, we need to discuss the fact that long-tenured employees who understand your legacy system’s quirks and workarounds are approaching retirement. When they go, they take years of undocumented institutional knowledge with them. What are you going to do? Modern cloud ERP converts that knowledge into documented, transferable processes, so your business keeps running smoothly as your team evolves.
The end-of-life clock is ticking
For businesses running certain legacy agribusiness ERP platforms, the urgency isn’t just operational; it’s structural. Some widely used ag-specific solutions are built on top of older technology or Microsoft infrastructure that is now on borrowed time. Microsoft has announced Dynamics GP will reach end of product support in December 2029, with security updates ending in April 2031. No new major features have been added since October 2022.
Organizations that wait until 2028 or 2029 to start planning not only will have to make a quick decision, but they also will be competing for implementation resources with any and all of the other companies who waited. Time pressure forces shortcuts. The window for a thoughtful, well-executed migration is open now. It won’t stay that way.
Bad data in, bad data out
Here’s a tip to get a head start. It’s the legacy software problem that’s becoming impossible to ignore in 2026: AI readiness.
Every ag business leader is hearing about artificial intelligence and what it could do for their operation. But there’s a hard truth that doesn’t get enough attention: AI is only as good as the data it uses. Legacy systems store data in fragmented, non-standardized formats across databases, spreadsheets, and manual records that modern AI tools simply can’t consume reliably.
“Bad data in is bad data out. If you’re trying to plug AI into a system with bad data and bad architecture, the results are going to be bad—inconsistent calculations, wrong numbers, information that’s behind.”
Cole Pearce, Senior Account Executive at Boyer
A unified cloud platform changes that entirely. With clean, centralized data on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management (F&SCM) and Levridge, ag businesses can close books faster, access grain positions in real time, and use Microsoft Copilot to answer natural-language queries about contracts, deliveries, and inventory, capabilities that simply aren’t possible on legacy infrastructure.
Why Boyer & Associates partnered with Levridge
Boyer & Associates brings deep experience in the agricultural industry, guiding agribusinesses through ERP transformations that stick. We understand both the technology and the organizational change required to make these transitions successful.
Levridge brings the ag-specific product depth built by people who run these types of businesses. Together, Boyer and Levridge offer a path forward that is grounded in how this industry works, not just how ERP systems work.
“The best thing about working with Boyer’s Catherine Dean and her team would be that she is a true partner and interested in your success. They are very attentive to your needs and are straight shooters on what they think the best thing is for your business.”
Jason Schmidt, Director of Financial Planning at CHS
Ready to move forward?
If you’re running on legacy ag software and wondering whether the time is right to explore your options, the short answer is: YES. It’s not because of the end-of-life clock, (though that is real) but because every day on a disconnected, siloed system is another day that your competitors are pulling further ahead on reporting speed, operational efficiency, and AI readiness.
Contact Boyer & Associates today to start the conversation. Whether you’re ready for a full agribusiness assessment or just want to understand your options, Boyer’s team is here to help you figure out the next step with confidence.
