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      Saturday, March 20, 2010
Managing farm finances continues to be an issue that all producers face. Profits in farming operations is based in part on sound financial management and planning for the future.

At this time of year, questions get asked about ways to determine hay/forage rental agreements.

Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced enhancements to Canada's feed ban in an attempt to strengthen Canada's safeguards against the spread of BSE and to speed its eradication.

This planner allows producers to input their own values for yields, prices, fixed and variable costs.

Information that can help estimate the income and cost of production for different crops on summer fallow and stubble in the various soil zones in the province.

This publication and the calculator focus on methods and economics of collecting and bunching crop residue for grazing in the field where produced.

The Crop Residue Calculator is a tool to help producers estimate the costs of feeding livestock with crop residue.

Deciding what crops to grow and the number of acres of each crop to plant are complex management decisions.

Custom grazing is an arrangement in which one person provides the pasture, water and grazing management expertise for another person's livestock.

This publication is intended to provide a format and a set of guidelines for determining costs of production for dairy goat operations. 
This publication focuses on the Cost of Production (COP) of producing seed potatoes under dryland conditions.

Shrink is a condition of sale and the largest and most controllable component in marketing.

The three main concepts that people use to establish the "value" of land are: economic value, non-economic value and market value.

Use this publication as a starting point in your planning process.

"Present Value" is a management tool used to analyze investment decisions.

Information regarding guidelines for machine ownership, operating costs, custom rates and rental rates for farm machinery.

Estimates the time, machinery and material requirements to build a fence.

Provides information on sheep production including calculations needed to measure production erformance against a benchmark operation.

Provides a format for calculating the cost of producing a forage crop. 

This worksheet identifies production areas in beef cattle operations.

To provide a format and a set of guidelines for determining costs of production for meat goat operations.

Calculators created in excel spreadsheets and provided "as is" to assist producers in planning for the future. 

Provides a format for calculating the cost of developing a new pasture.
Provide guidance to land owners and renters in the development of a pasture lease agreement.
Provides background on marketing potatoes in the Prairie Provinces as well as cost of production information.

The Saskatchewan Farm Energy Evaluation Program, which is funded by the provincial government, was developed to make farm producers more aware of where and how energy can be used more efficiently on the farm and in farming operations.

A quick and simple process called "a partial budget" will determine which choice is the most profitable.

Special Crop Marketing Companies.

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Archive information provided for research and historical purposes only.

Archive information provided for research and historical purposes only.

Archive information provided for research and historical purposes only.


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