The following discussion of the retained ownership budget templates assumes that the budgets are run in Excel 97. This should help to overcome any confusion arising from any differences in Excel or Quattro programs. Page names are located on tabs at the bottom of each worksheet. These colors indicate which type of information is located in the cells.
Yellow fields are for the input of user provided information.
This includes performance information including daily feed consumption and average daily gain for the selected backgrounding alternatives as well as information on input prices, output prices, and cattle weights. The user must define the backgrounding program to be budgeted. More will be said about this sheet later. If the user chooses to use his own figures to define a unique backgrounding program, it is important to be sure that these figures are realistic. Any by-products may be included in this space.