Super Farm Planning Tool

By Paul Bergener

Cost of production budgets with the ability to make changes on the fly will offer farmers flexibility when doing cash flow planning this winter.

Historically, crop budgets have been a static publication that could be used to get a rough idea of costs on a farm, but could not be easily manipulated to fit an individual operation. Roger Wilson and Robert Klein at the University of Nebraska have developed a set of crop budgets that allow the user to make changes in the operations and inputs with a series of drop down menus.