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Ag Manager's Tools
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Agricultural Economics |
Ag Manager's Decision Aids |
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| Corn or Soybeans after Corn | These Excel worksheets 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 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 | |
| Sorghum or Soybeans after Wheat | |
| Established Wheat or Corn | |
| Cornstalk Grazing Calculator | An Excel worksheet for matching livestock size and numbers with corn stalk acres needed with a cost |
| Feed Cost Calculator with Examples | An Excel worksheet that 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. |
| Cow-calf Share Lease | An Excel worksheet that calculates an equitable share arrangement for leasing cows. |
| Breakeven Feeder or Cull Cow | An Excel worksheet that calculates breakevens for feeders or cull cowws. |
| Water Development cost for Grazing Livestock | An Excel 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 | An Excel worksheet that calculates the costs and the net present value of establishing an irrigated pasture under a pivot irrigation system. |