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Websites with Useful Information for Outsourcing Feed and Fieldwork

 The Cornell Small Farms Program has a variety of resources at its website, including production, marketing, and business management:

http://www.cals.cornell.edu/agfoodcommunity/afs_temp3.cfm

 University of Wisconsin – Forage Resources

This website has lots and lots of excellent articles, spreadsheets, and decision-making tools.  The home page is included in the Outsourcing Resources:

http://www.uwex.edu/ces/crops/uwforage/uwforage.htm

 Machinery Management Articles from Iowa State University can be found at, http://www.extension.iastate.edu/pubs/fm2.htm

PM 696 Estimating Field Capacity of Farm Machines

PM 709 Fuel Required for Field Operations

PM 786 Combine Ownership or Custom Hire

PM 787 Acquiring Farm Machinery Services: Ownership, Custom Hire,

Rental, Leasing

PM 952 Farm Machinery Selection

PM 1373 Joint Machinery Ownership

PM 1450 Transferring Ownership of Farm Machinery

PM 1860 Replacement Strategies for Farm Machinery

 The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture has many excellent business management tools (decision making tools and spreadsheets) at: http://www.gov.on.ca/OMAFRA/english/busdev/downtown.htm. They include:

Land Leasing Tools

The Building Rent Calculator

Hay Cost of Production Worksheet

Machinery Cost Calculator

The Land Cost Calculator

The Equipment Lease Analyser

Custom Farmwork Rate Calculator

 Pricing Standing Hay

http://www.ontarioforagecouncil.com/forage_marketing.htm

http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/pok/howmuchforstandinghay.htm

http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/green/ag/pdf/greenagcalendar.pdf

 Pricing Hay Based on Quality

http://www.uwex.edu/ces/crops/HayPricing.htm – type in your quality values and it calculates a price.  Except it is based on the old “Relative Feed Value” parameter which is accurate for alfalfa, but under-estimates grass quality,

 “The Time Value of Money and Investment Analysis”

http://agmarketing.extension.psu.edu/Business/FinancialTools/TimeValueMoneyP2.PDF