Papers, Publications, and Presentations

December 2011 - Wisconsin Calculated Milk Cost Production / authored by Ken Bolton, UW-Extension, Center for Dairy Profitability.

Crop Enterprise Budgets and Economics

2012 Crop Budget Cost of Production Calculator for Wisconsin (Excel). This cost of production calculator estimates costs and returns for 2011. It allows the user to construct enterprise budgets for corn after corn, corn after soybeans, corn silages after alfalfa, corn silage after corn, soybeans, wheat, seeding alfalfa and established alfalfa for hay and haylage. Ken Barnett, November 2011.

Decision-Making Tools

Corn Silage: Hay Economics Calculator
Spreadsheet is intended to assist dairy producers who also grow their own forages in making the decision of what proportion of the forage ration of hay: corn silage dry matter(DM) is economical / produced by Ken Bolton, Bruce Jones, and Randy Shaver. Center for Dairy Profitability, Department of Ag Economics, and Dept. of Dairy Science - UW-Madison, 2011.

Working Capital Decision Support System: The Working Capital (WC) decision support system consists of a suite of tools. It is intended to assist dairy producers in identifying annual cash flow balances for the recent past (1-2 years); project expected incomes and expenses for the coming year and identify cash excesses/shortfalls well in advance of occurrence. Stand alone Excel, AGFA compliant, Balance Sheet and Farm Earnings Statements are also offered.

Software

AAIMS©

AAIMS© - 2012 Tax Information. Users may call: 608.263.5665 to have a new CD sent out to them for $30.00 (this includes the tax file and latest version of AAIMS 2011.12) OR have the file sent to you via email. When calling please state name and address.

AAIMS© (Agricultural Accounting and Information Management System) 2011.12. COST: New Farm Operators: $160.00 + Shipping/Handling. Update from previous version: cost varies depending on what version you currently have. Please call: 608-263.5665.

AgFA ©

AgFA© Subscribers: Milk Price Information: to incorporate the current (2012) milk price information into your computer's AgFA© data, you must "SYNCH" the data with the UW/CDP's server. IF you have run a report(s) on a farm prior to syncrhonizing, you must make a modification in that farm's data to obtains correct reports generation ona per Product Unit Basis. Questions? Please contact: Jenny Vanderlin, 608.263.7795, jmvander@wisc.edu

Benchmark Reports: You will need Crystal Reports Viewer 2011 to view all AgFA Benchmark Reports.

Please download it and install on your computer. (10/19/2011)

Download Crystal Reports Viewer 2011 - 68MB

Crystal Report View 2011 Installation Guide

ABCS©

2011 ABCS© (Agricultural Budget Calculation Software) Budget Files: To download: Click the link, choose "SAVE" from the dialog box and save the .zip file. Unzip the .zip file and move the contents into the ABCS directory on your hard drive. Questions regarding this update should be directed to Ken Barnett at (715.355.4561) or Jenny Vanderlin at (608) 263-7795.

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