Baled Livestock Budget Estimates

Downloading and Installing the Baled Livestock Budget Estimates

Click on Baled Livestock Budget Estimates, a self-extracting zipped file with a setup routine. With most browsers, you will get a choice of saving it to your hard drive or opening it. Save it to your hard drive. Go to the folder/directory in which you saved the file and double-click on livestock.exe It will copy its files to your Windows/Temp directory, and then start the Setup routine. Just follow the Setup Routine instructions.

Note to Windows 2000 Users:

When installing baled budgets, you may get a message saying there is no disk in the drive. If you cancel this message (it may appear twice) the program should continue to install.

To Create a Shortcut:

After installing the Program, you will see a Program Group with an icon. DO NOT drag the icon out of the program group to create the icon. Right click on the icon that appears in the program group then click 'Copy'. Close the Program Group. Now, right click in the middle of the screen and click 'Paste'. This will copy and paste the icon.

Another way to create a shortcut is, somewhere on the main screen of Windows '95/'98, click the right button of the mouse. Then click New, then click Shortcut. Double click the LIVESTOCK file, then click livestock.exe. Click next, and follow the directions.

Overview:

The Baled Livestock Budget Estimates is a stand-alone software program which calculates returns from user-input information. The program then generates a budget.

To begin using the Baled Livestock Budget Estimates, select which budget you wish to use from the 'Budgets' drop down menu at the top of the window. On the budget page, click the cell with blue numbers to change information to fit your farm. The numbers in black show your results based on the information you entered in blue.

Instructions for using the Livestock Budgets are included on the opening page of the program.

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