If not otherwise stated, please contact the Center for Dairy Profitability for ordering and price information. Calculates how much you can afford to pay for a cow if she does not not add to overhead costs. Crop Processor Partial budget analysis, with accompanying sensitivity tables. Spreadsheet that allows you to spread costs between milk, raising heifers and up to 5 cropping enterprises. This decision aid produces both a profitability and cash flow analysis.
Sensitivity analysis is presented in both tabular and graphic formats.
Helps determine your forage harvesting costs vs. custom operator charges. Enter the current year's values for your farm, then enter a change in cow numbers, investment in buildings, machinery, etc., production per cow, number of heifers kept, etc. Allows you to balance your dairy cow rations between alfalfa, corn silage, and soil nutrients. Cost of Producing Milk per Hundredweight Equivalent Worksheet. Prepared by Gary Frank, Center for Dairy Profitability.