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Wen-fei Uva, Steve Richards, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, May 2003
Operations and financial records from greenhouse businesses specializing in outdoor bidding and garden plants, indoor potted plants, and other horticultural products are summarized. The bulletin provides financial performance bench marks for smaller and larger greenhouse businesses. This information is valuable in evaluating the feasibility of a greenhouse business and in evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of an existing greenhouse business.
To order a copy, contact Wen-fei Uva at (607) 255-3688 or wl32@cornell.edu.
Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
The programs are LEAP (lease analysis program), CASHPRO (projecting annual cash flows), MOCASH (projecting monthly cash flows), and FISA (a complete integrated set of financial statements including ratios).
Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
A regional summary of New York State dairy farm financial and production data. Provides helpful information to analyze your own farm's strengths and weaknesses. Special DFBS reports are available for grazing herds and small herds. Small Herd Farms: 65 Cows or Fewer (1999) is available online at http://aem.cornell.edu/outreach/extensionpdf/eb0012.pdf.
To obtain a copy of your region's Dairy Farm Business Summary, contact Linda Putnam at (607) 255-8429 or ldp2@cornell.edu.
Cornell Cooperative Extension
Organizes your record keeping for determining labor and other costs as well as income. Provides the facts for studying the physical and financial organization and operation of the farm as well as an easy summary of year-end results.
92 pages. Item 121CUFAB. $7.50. Click here for an order form.
Cornell Cooperative Extension
Makes it easy to take an annual inventory to construct your farm balance sheet. One section is used as an income tax depreciation record and schedule to help you compute annual income tax depreciation, record expensing elections, record investment credit claimed and used, and keep track of unrecovered costs or basis. Includes conversion tables for stored feeds and crops.
34 pages. Item 121FIDB. $3.95. Click here for an order form.
University of Maine Extension
This book, which is in 3-ring format, comes with accounting instructions and blank pages for record keeping. It is an excellent tool for either paper accounting, or to provide data for software systems.
$5.50.
To order, contact:
UMass Extension Bookstore
Phone: (413) 545-2717 (in MA) or 1-877-UMASSXT (1-877-862-7798)
Fax: (413) 545-5174
E-mail: books@umext.umass.edu
An excellent, easy-to-use template for record keeping and crop planning on a diversified farm. Especially useful for CSA farms. For either Mac or PC platforms.
$25. Available from Brookfield Farm. To order, visit the web site, or send an e-mail to cropplanning@brookfieldfarm.org with your name, address, phone number, and what version of Excel you use, and then send a check for $25 made out to Brookfield Farm to:
24 Hulst Rd.
Amherst, MA 01002
Robin Brumfield A software program that is useful in analyzing various strategies to improve the overall profitability of greenhouse businesses. It is useful for greenhouse managers and business owner who have a grasp on financial management and maintain good records.
$50.
To order, send a check to:
Robin Brumfield
2908 West Turner St.
Allentown, PA 18104
E-mail: brumfield@aesop.rutgers.edu
Sarah Roth, Jeffrey Hyde, Penn State University
An online publication from the Ag Alternatives Program at Penn State on partial budgeting for a farm business. Partial budgeting is a planning and decision-making framework farm business owners can use to compare the costs and benefits of alternatives they face. This publication explains how to use partial budgeting and explains its benefits in making farm business decisions. Publication is in PDF format.
For a print copy of this publication, contact:
Publications Distribution Center
The Pennsylvania State University
Phone: (814) 865-6713
Fax: (814) 863-5560
West Virginia University Extension Service
Designed to help managers consider different options and gather the necessary information to make decisions. Also includes spreadsheet templates and market information.
Michael R. Sciabarrasi, University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension
This workbook was developed using Microsoft Excel 97. It allows the user to retrieve enterprise budgets for 11 vegetable crops. The user may change inputs, output level, and prices to better fit a specific farm. Enterprise budgets for new crops may also be developed. Publication is in PDF format.
For either Mac or PC platforms.
$45 plus $5 shipping. Order from:
Full Circle Farm
3377 Early Times Lane
Auburn, CA 95603
Phone: (530) 885-9201
E-mail: Marcie Rosenzweig
West Virginia University Extension Service
Offers a number of Excel and Quattro Pro spreadsheets to help analyze costs of production for beef, sheep, timber, wool, and milk.
University of Missouri Outreach Extension
To order book, call (573) 882-7216. If you wish to use cash sale instead of invoice, e-mail str4@cornell.edu.