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 the MANURWKST.XLS spreadsheet, news releases, 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 spreadsheet template.
   
  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

• Minnesota Crop Cost & Return Guide for 2010 (Projected costs and returns for corn grain, soybeans, wheat, corn silage, alfalfa hay, and energy crops) (pdf) (October 2009).
  
  • See also CROPBUD.xls, Crop enterprise budget spreadsheet to accompany the cost and return guide, contains detailed prices and quantities not included in the publication.
    
    
• Cropland rental rates for Minnesota (pdf)
  St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Extension Service (with Hachfeld, Nordquist and Loppnow). Based on FINBIN data from 2004 through 2008.
   
  
• HAYCUTDATE.xls, Spreadsheet for looking at how cutting date affects yield, quality and profitability of a hay crop.


• Forage Equipment Management
  Archive of articles published originally in the Midwest Forage Association’s Forage Focus newsletter.