Business and Financial Management
This page provides the starting point for several pages of information regarding improved business management for dairy farms.
Managing in Tough Financial Times
- Managing Dairy Farm Finances (Power Point) (pdf)
- Managing Dairy Farm Finances (Adobe Connect presentation)
- Dairy Finances 101 for Crisis Situations (pdf)
- What Do You Tell the Kids in Tough Times? (Adobe Connect presentation)
- Using Dairy TRANS to Help Dairies Perform (Adobe Connect Presentation)
Economics
- Tracking Milk Prices and Feed Costs (pdf)
- Impact of Changing Milk and Input Prices (pdf)
- Estimated costs of pasture and hay production (pdf)
- Iowa farm custom rate survey (pdf)
- Natural resources custom rate survey (pdf)
- Estimating cash rental rates for farmland (pdf)
- Survey of cash rental rates for farmland (pdf)
- Survey of Iowa farmland value (pdf)
ISU Extension
New freestall barn costs (pdf)
ISU Extension Dairy Farm Management PUBLICATIONS
- Sharemilking in the Midwest by Larry Tranel
- Show Me the Money I -- Model Dairy Producers say "Cha Ching -- Cha Ching!" by Larry Tranel
- Show Me the Money II -- Beginning Dairy Producer Heading towards Millionaire Status! by Larry Tranel
- What Can You Afford to Pay for a Dairy Farm? by Larry Tranel
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? by Larry Tranel
- Managing Dairy Farm Finances by Larry Tranel
- Contracting Corn Silage for Your Dairy by Larry Tranel
ISU Extension Powerpoint PRESENTATIONS
- DAIRY TRANS 4.0 -- Helping Dairies Perform by Larry Tranel
Decision Making Tools
Contact
Lee Kilmer
123 Kildee Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: 515-294-4641
Fax: 515-294-2393
Email: lhkilmer@iastate.edu
Office Hours:
M-F 8:00 am - 11:50 am
and 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

