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Business Management Resources

Documents

New Farmers

• Guide to Starting a Farm Business in New York State

Rental Agreements

• Sample NY Farm Lease

 

Excel Spreadsheet Models

Cull Decisions

• Cull Calculator - Determines the profitability of culling one cow over another

General Dairy Management

• Barn Renovation Payback Estimator - Determines the cull rate drop or increase in milk production needed to make a barn renovation profitable
• Broken Cow Evaluator - Helps analyze herd health and culling causes on a farm
• Cow Imprint Measurer - Sumarizes the length and width of your cows to help determine optimal stall size
• Internal Herd Growth Calculator - Projects the growth/decline in herdsize of your farm given cull rates and other herd statistics

Milk Marketing

• Milk Marketer - Calcualtes a milk check with 2003 USDA formulas and shows the effect of various hedging instruments
• Component Calculator - Determines the net profitability when a management decsion causes a change in production and milk component levels

Pasture

• Pasture Planner for Heifers - Helps plan a pasture management (excess and supplemental feed needed) in a holstein heifer raising system
• Whole Farm Pasture Planner - Helps plan a pasture management system for an entire dairy farm

Ration Balancing

• Beef Balancer - 2000 NRC Beef Ration Balancer
• Feed Usage Calcualator - Forecasts feed usage for a dairy farm
• Swine Solver - 1998 NRC Swine Ration Balancer

Recordkeeping

• Cornell Account Book - Monthly
• Cornell Account Book - Annual