Dollars & Sense is a computer spreadsheet bundle that I have been working on over the past few years. The program runs off of Microsoft Excel or a Free program called Open Office.

~Farm Crops~
With the farm crops portion of the program you can compare growing different crops in various "what if" scenarios. Once you have all of the input costs put in the program you and set a yield and see what price you need to break even or to get a select ROI. In turn you can set a price and have the program figure out what yield you need to break even or to get a select ROI.

If You would like a copy it is $20. Let me know.

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I have been using this program for over 7 years that I created. It runs in excel or open office(free) and it helps you make decisions on what crop to plant, how much fertilizer.

I live outside of king city, and have lived on the farm my whole life. I like numbers and created this little program while in collage and a professor said I should market this program to farmers. Every year I sell a few copies and it helps when things are slow and the weather is too bad outside to do things.

It also lets you run scenarios where Farm 1 costs me $100/acre to rent, and yields 35bu soybeans, and farm 2 costs $150/acre to rent and yields 45bu soybeans. Which farm has the greater % Return??

What is the break even bu per acre of corn at $3.50 a bu or $6 a bu?

If your corn made 130bu/acre at what price do you have to get to break even?

My program will help you answer these questions, you put in the info you already know like how much it costs per acre for chemical, fertilizer, insurance, field work, combining, trucking, and it will tell you how much interest your paying on each acre if your borrowing your money, how much it costs to plant each acre, how much to plant each farm, profit per acre, profit per farm, and Return on investment in a nice % so you can compare farm 1 to farm 2, and corn field to bean field when it comes down to % return.

The pages print on a single page, the text is small but your banker will be impressed that you have figures he can work with. Also you can e-mail the file to your banker and he can see it for him self.


I give out free phone/e-mail support. If you need to met w/ me somewhere or have me come to your house to set it up, or setup or train you how to use the program $25/hr plus cost of fuel to get to you, or could met somewhere and I could bring my laptop.

I also have a sheet for keeping track of sprayer records if you do your own spraying.

There is also a sheet for people backgrounding cattle, or deciding on how long to feed their calves before they sell them. you put in what your can buy the calves for, and what you hope to sell them for, loss, weight gain, expected price, feed, pasture, water, mineral, ect costs.

I can make excel programs via request, that is how the sprayer sheets came about.

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Updated 2008 for Insuranc costs, Interest and Includes government payments.
   

~Feed Out & Hay~
Another portion of the program is the Feed Out sheet. This page was created because while sitting at a cattle auction you can see lighter cattle bring almost as much as smaller cattle. If you take a look a current market trends and figure an average gain of 40lbs per month and estimate the various costs you can tell weather it will be profitable to go after that venture. Added for 2008 is the hay spread sheet, how much does it cost to produce bales of hay? Buy it or grow it?

~Fertilizer~

Ouch!!! Has anyone priced fertilizer lately? Talk about an arm and a leg to pay for that pricey stuff....See what the different rates compare on dollars per acre with this handly little program. Soybeans that yield 40 bu take 40-70 p & k outta the soil, and 50-80 for 50 bushel. So how much would it cost to give your crop an extra 10bu of goodies for the next year. So how much money would you trade for an extra 10 bu? 

~Trucking~

So the price difference between St. Joe and Kansas City,  is .25 cents, and you own your own semi is it worth your time for the extra miles? Use this spread sheet to figure it out.

I will add more to the screen shots later. There are a couple of other mini-programs in the program that I may show.

Questions? Comments? E-Mail Me