The purpose of these budgets is to serve as a management and decision-making guide for current and prospective producers of these enterprises.
Livestock Safety Handling Checklist.
Steve Isaacs, Laura Powers, G.T. Lineberry, Roy Burris, and Ted Scharf.
December, 2007.
(Adobe Acrobat format.)
This checklist for safely handling livestock includes the following areas:
I. Assess environmental conditions
II. Understand animal behavior
III. Maintain appropriate and adequate handling equipment and facilities
IV> Practice safe and efficient handling techniques
The key to economic success for the cow-calf operation is cost control. According to a recent study of beef farms participating in the Kentucky Farm Business Management Program , feed costs make up more that 40% of the total cost of producing a weaned calf. Over 80% of feed costs are made up of homegrown feed, the majority of which is undoubtedly hay. Anything producers can do to reduce the costs associated with hay production and harvesting should help improve the profitability of their beef business.
The Improved Grass Legume Hay Enterprise Budget Decision Aid is a simple tool designed to help producers determine the cost of hay production in their operation.
The Field Crop budgets include 12 common field crops grown in Kentucky. They include: Alfalfa, No-Till Corn, Conventional Corn,
Popcorn, Corn Silage, White Corn, Grass Legume Hay, Grain Sorghum, No-Till Soybeans, Barley/Soybeans Double Crop, Wheat/Soybeans Double Crop, and Wheat.
These budgets reside in a Microsoft Excel file “budgets_FieldCrop.xls”. The user is able to change the
default information in the budgets to reflect their production practices to generate a budget that is representative of their own situation.
Livestock Enterprise Budgets is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet application that generates enterprise budgets from
user-input information. There are 14 livestock budgets available for producers to use. They are: Cow Calf Spring,
Cow Calf Fall, Replacement Heifer, Steer Backgrounding, Summer grazing, Hog Farrow-Finish, Hog Finishing, Meat
Goat-Low Intensity, Meat Goat-Medium Intensity, Meat Goat-High Intensity, Sheep-Fall Lambing, Sheep-Early
Winter Lambing, Sheep-Late Winter Lambing and Lamb Finishing.
Hay Storage Decision Aid.
Kenny Burdine, Richard Trimble and Steve Isaacs.
April, 2005.
(Microsoft Excel format.)
A simple tool that is designed to help producers determine the best hay storage method for their operation.
Pasture and Forage Improvement Investment Tool.
Kenny Burdine, Richard Trimble and Steve Isaacs.
April, 2005.
(Microsoft Excel format.)
The Pasture and Forage Improvement Investment Tool is intended to evaluate numerous investments that the beef operator may consider. The decision aid can be easily applied to any investment with a multi-year life.
Revised 12/23/04.
To determine a fair and equitable share lease, all parties should place a value on the resources they contribute, total them, and share in the revenue in the same proportions that they share in the costs. To help growers and landowners in this process, the University of Kentukcy College of Agriculture has
prepared an enterprise budget to allow users to change input costs and to assign those costs to each party in the proportion they will be shared.
This publication contains budgets for production of single and double cropped soybeans in Kentucky. The purpose of these budgets is to serve as a management and decision-making guide for current and prospective producers of these enterprises.
