Ag Manager's Toolbox |  Matt Stockton |  Sunil Dhoubhadel |
Each of the following links connects to an Excel Spreadsheet.
| These Excel worksheets (right) are designed to help producers make planting decisions. Commodity prices used are harvest contract prices quoted by All Points Cooperative in Gothenburg, NE on January 10, 2008. Cost inputs are for representative NoTill budgets using price estimates. They are provided for demonstration purposes only as prices are extremely variable at this time. Producers need to use their own price estimates and should independently verify all result prior to making their planting decisions. | Corn or Soybeans after Corn |
| Corn or Sorghum after Corn | |
| Sorghum or Soybeans after Corn | |
| Corn or Soybeans after Soybeans | |
| Corn or Sorghum after Soybeans | |
| Sorghum or Soybeans after Soybeans | |
| Corn or Soybeans after Wheat | |
| Corn or Sorgum after Wheat | |
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| Established Wheat or Corn |
This Cow-Calf Cost Cow-Q-Lator spread sheet can be used as a reference for cow-calf enterprise simulation. Producers can enter their specific data to estimate the profitability of their cow-calf operation.
The Cornstalk Grazing Cow-Q-Lator is an Excel worksheet for matching livestock size and numbers with corn stalk acres needed with a cost.
The Feed Cost Cow-Q-Lator with Examples compares the cost of TDN and Crude Protein in different feeds considering transportation and handling costs and losses. It also calculates the feed needed and total cost given herd size and days fed. The “With Examples” spreadsheet is the above described spreadsheet with some sample feeds entered.
A Cow-calf Share Lease Cow-Q-Lator calculates an equitable share arrangement for leasing cows. The password for this spreadsheed is "cow."
Breakeven Cow-Q-Lator for Feeders or Cull Cows is an Excel worksheet that calculates breakevens for feeders or cull cows.
Water Development Cost Cow-Q-Lator for Grazing Livestock is a worksheet for estimating the cost for developing water sources for livestock in grazing areas. This worksheet is from extension circular EC03-821 published by the University of Nebraska.
Economics of Irrigated Pasture helps producers calculate the costs and the net present value of establishing an irrigated pasture under a pivot irrigation system.
Hedge Calculator: Unstable markets can make it difficult for producers to choose the optimum time to sell their calves. There are a variety of methods available to sell calves. We have built a program that uses historical data to help users understand just one method: hedging.
WEBISSM stands for “Whole Farm Economic Biological Institutional Stochastic Simulation Model” and is a project supported by the National Research Initiative of the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, USDA, Grant #2007-55618-18143. The goal of this project is to improve small and medium-sized farm survivability and, ultimately, profitability--specifically the sustainability of cow-calf operations.
It will do this by:
- integrating research, education, and extension activities through the creation of an integrated Whole-farm Economic Biological Institutional Stochastic Simulation Model,
- developing this base model into three distinct application interfaces for classroom instructors, extension professionals and educators, and researchers.
Click here to access the WEBISSM home page. The website is being updated with the progression of the model building.
