Crop and Livestock Economics

Livestock

• The "Other Fertilizer": The Economic Value of Swine Finishing Manure with Koehler and Spiehs.
   
  
• Manure Application Economics with Bob Koehler, Extension Educator at the Southwestern Minnesota Research and Outreach Center (This link takes you to news release, PDFs of presented papers, Powerpoint slide sets, hand worksheets, and Excel spreadsheets on Bob’s website).
   
  
• PIGNET Swine Enterprise Budget, Version 2 (xls)
  MS Excel 2002 spreadsheet template.
   
  The original version of PIGNET (xls) is also still available. The complete report of the interviews and financial analysis is available in Swine Production Networks in Minnesota: Resources for Decision Making (pdf), Staff Paper P96-4 by Bob Koehler, Bill Lazarus and Brian Buhr, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, Revised December 1996. 

Crops

• 2007 Cropland rental rates for Minnesota (pdf)
  St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Extension Service (with Hachfeld, Nordquist and Loppnow). Based on FINBIN data through 2004.
   
  
• Forage Equipment Management
  Archive of articles published originally in the Midwest Forage Association’s Forage Focus newsletter.
   
  
• Crop Budget Generator
  Spreadsheet for MS Excel, by the FAPRI group at the U. of Missouri – incorporates my machinery cost information.
   
  
• Management Strategies of Farmers and Farm Sustainability in the Red River Valley (pdf)
  staff paper