• Pasture Cost Improvement Budgets (8 Decision Tools)
  Use these decision tools to determine the initial cost per acre for improving
  • Grass
    • Lime, Fertilizer, and Weed Control
    • Complete Renovation with a New Grass Seeding
    • Complete Renovation with a Legume-Grass Mixture
  • Pasture
    • Interseeding and No-till Renovation
    • Frost Seeding
    • Killed Sod, No-till Renovation
  • Hay
    • Alfalfa or Alfafa-grass Hay Budget
    • Alfalfa or Alfalfa-grass Hay with Oat Companion Crop Budget
    
    

• Vegetable Budgets (14 Decision Tools)
  Use these decision tools to estimate the costs and returns for vegetable production. Budgets are available for:
  • Asparagus
  • Basil
  • Specialty Green Beans
  • Carrots
  • Eggplant
  • Garlic
  • Salad Greens
  • Snow Peas
  • Potatoes
  • Sweet Potatoes
  • Red Raspberries
  • Strawberries
  • Cherry Tomatoes
  • Heirloom Tomatoes
  
  

• Organic Crop Production Enterprise Budgets (4 Decision Tools)
  Use these decision tools to estimate the costs and returns for growing Organic Corn, Organic Soybeans, Organic Oats, and Organic Alfalfa
  

• Crop Production Costs Budgets (13 Decision Tools)
  Use these decision tools to project the costs and returns of growing
  • Corn following Corn
  • Corn following Soybean
  • Corn Silage following Corn
  • Herbicide tolerant Beans following Corn (herbicide tolerant)
  • Non-tolerant Soybeans following Corn
  • Non-tolerant drilled Soybeans following Corn
  • Low-till corn following soybeans
  • Low-till drilled soybeans following Corn
  • Maintaining Improved Grass Pasture
  • Maintaining Improved Grass-Legume Pasture
  • Alfalfa or Alfafa-grass Hay Budget
  • Alfalfa or Alfalfa-grass Hay with Oat Companion Crop Budget
  • Oat or Other Small Grain Budget
  
  

• Breakeven Worksheet for Crops
  Use this decision tool to find cash-flow requirements per acre and break-even selling prices per bushel or ton for individual crops.

• Grain Drying Cost Calculator
  Use this decision tool to calculate total drying cost per bushel based on the type of drying system and price inputs.

• Crop Rotation Summary
  Use this decision tool to estimate the returns for different crop
  rotations.

• Direct and Counter Cyclical Program Payment Estimator
  Use this decision tool to project Direct payments and Counter Cyclical Program Payments for the current farm bill.

• SURE Payment Calculator (Supplemental Revenue Assistance)
  Use this decision tool to estimate payments under Supplemental Revenue Assistance (SURE).

• Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) Payment Estimator
  Use this decision tool to estimate payments under the Average Crop Revenue Election program.

• Crop Insurance Comparison
  Use this decision tool to compare different crop insurance strategies for corn and soybeans.

• Delayed Planting and Replanting Evaluator
  Use this decision tool to evalutate delayed planting, replanting and prevented planting alternatives.

• Group Risk Crop Insurance Comparison
  Use this decision tool to compare GRIP and GRP crop insurance for corn and soybeans.

• Corn Silage Pricer
  Use this decision tool to estimate a minimum and maximum price for corn silage standing in the field or harvested and stored

• Corn Stover Pricer
  Use this decision tool to estimate a price for corn stover standing in the field or harvested and stored.

• Rotation Profitability Calculator
  Use this decision tool to compare return to management on different crop rotations and find the break-even price.

• Rotation Profitability Calculator - using optimal nitrogen rate
  Use this decision tool to compare return to management on different crop rotations using the optimal rate of nitrogen.

• Monthly Cost for Storing Grain
  Use this decision tool to project the cost of storing grain past harvest in existing storage facilities or commercial storage.

• Grain Storage Investment Comparison
  Use this decision tool to compare the cost for on-farm storage, commercial storage, rental farm storage, or in a storage condominium investment.

• Determining the Custom Operator's Share of the Crop
  Use this decision tool to compute an equitable share of the crop to give the custom operator instead of a cash payment.

• Farm Machinery Financing Analyzer
  Use this decision tool to compare the cost the cost of owning vs. leasing farm machinery.

• Estimating the Field Capacity of Farm Machines
  Use this decision tool to estimate the acreage capacity of a new machine.

• Matching Tractor Power and Implement Size
  Use this decision aid to match the size of a tractor to the size of an implement.

• Estimating the Number of Field Days Required
  Use this decision tool to estimate the number of field days required to complete a field operation.

• Estimating Farm Machinery Costs
  Use this decision tool to estimate the cost of owning and operating farm machinery.

• Grain Transportation Costs
  Use this decision tool to find ownership and operator costs for transporting grain by wagon or truck.
  

• Combine Ownership or Custom Hire
  Use this decision tool to help you compare the cost of owning a combine to the cost of custom hire.

• Joint Machinery Ownership
  Use this decision aid to compute each party's cost of jointly owning machinery.

• Farm Machinery Joint Venture Worksheet
  Use this decision aid to compute each party's initial capital contribution and annual payments and operating expenses for a joint venture

• Motor Vehicle Cost Analyzer
  Use this decision tool to calculate ownership and operating costs for a vehicle per mile and per year.
  

• Livestock Enterprise Budgets (12 Decision Tools)
  Use these decision tools to project the profitability of
  • Farrow-to-Finish
  • Finishing Feeder Pigs
  • Producing weaned 12 lb. pigs - Total Confinement
  • Finishing weaned 12 lb. pigs – Total Confinement
  • Finishing Yearling Steers
  • Finishing Steer Calves
  • Finishing Yearling Heifers
  • Backgrounding Steer Calves
  • Beef Cow-Calf
  • Ewe Flock
  • Finishing Feeder Lamb
  • Grade A Dairy
  
  

• Organic Dairy Budget
  Use this decision tool to project the profitability of organic dairy production.
  

• Livestock Revenue Protection (LRP) Analyzer
  Use this decision tool to compare the price risk protection available with Livestock Revenue Protection to using futures contracts, put options or no price protection.
  

• Manure Calculator
  Use this decision tool to analyze the value of manure nutrient components.

• Simple Hog Market Calculator
  Use this decision tool to evaluate the added return per head from marketing hogs a few days later and at a heavier weight.

• Swine Marketing Decision Calculator
  Use this decision tool for help in evaluating optimal marketing weight.

• Partial Budgeting
  Use this decision tool to evaluate the financial effect of incremental changes for a farm business

• Dividing Business Income
  Use this decision tool to calculate how to divide income between different parties.

• Cash Rental Rate Estimation
  Use this decision tool to compare different methods of computing Cropland Cash Rent.

• Flexible Lease Agreement Worksheet
  Use this decision tool to analyze a flexible lease arrangement.

• Calculating Hay and Pasture Cash Rents
  Use this decision tool to compare different methods of computing rent for hay and pasture ground.

• Computing a Grain Storage Rental Rate
  Use this decision tool to estimate a grain storage rental rate.

• Computing a Livestock Building Cash Rental Rate
  Use this decision tool to estimate a livestock building rental rate.

• Beef Cow Share Agreement Analysis
  Use this decision tool to estimate costs and returns for each party in a beef cow share agreement.

• Farmland Purchase Analysis
  Use this decision tool to compare the economic and financial impacts of purchasing a parcel of farmland.

• Cash Flow Budget (short form)
  Use this decision tool to calculate a simple cash-flow budget for a small business project.

• Cash Flow Budget (short form - 6 periods - monitor projections)
  Use this decision tool to make a simple cash flow projection, monitor the projections by entering the actual flows as they occur and make adjustments as needed.
  

• Cash Flow Budget (short form - 12 periods)
  Use this decision tool to make a simple cash flow projection over 12 periods.
  

• Cash Flow Budget (corn, soybeans and livestock)
  Use this decision tool to calculate a detailed cash-flow budget for your farm.

• Cash Flow Budget (multiple crops and livestock)
  Use this decision tool to calculate a detailed cash-flow budget for your farm.

• Net Worth Statement (short form)
  Use this decision tool to make a simple net worth statement.
  

• Net Worth Statement
  Use this decision tool to calculate net worth.

• Analyzing a Net Worth Statement
  Use this decision tool to analyze a net worth statement

• Income Statement (short form)
  Use this decision tool to make a simple income statement.
  

• Farm Income Statement
  Use this decision tool to calculate farm income.

• Accrual Net Farm Income Worksheet
  Prepares an accrual net income statement from income tax schedules and net worth statements.

• Analyzing an Income Statement
  Use this decision tool to analyze an income statement.

• Financial Performance Measures
  Use this decision tool to calculate financial performance measures for your farm that can be compared to industry standards.

• Interpreting Financial Performance Measures
  Use this decision tool to create a five-year trend analysis.

• Complete Financial Statements
  Use this decision tool to calculate a comprehensive set of financial statements including the beginning and ending net worth statements, the income statement, the cash-flow statement, the statement of owner equity, and the financial performance measures.

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C3-25

C3-55

• Dividing Business Income
  Use this decision tool to calculate how to divide income between different parties.

• Metric Conversions
  Use this decision tool for converting between English and Metric units.

• Storage Capacity
  Use this decision tool to calculate the storage capacity of multiple types of grain storage facilities.

• Grant In-Kind Match Contributions
  Use this decision tool to keep track of in-kind match for matching grants.

• Travel Expense Voucher
  Use this decision tool to keep track of travel expenditures for reimbursement.

• Value-Added Processing Facility Start-up Costs
  Use this decision tool to estimate the start-up cost of a value-added processing facility. You can also use this spreadsheet to monitor your budgeted expenditures.