Business and Financial Management

This page provides the starting point for several pages of information regarding improved business management for dairy farms.

Cost of Production

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

Daily Dairy Reports

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
  • 2002 Data  
  • 2004 Data
  • 2007 Data
• 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

• Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitability