Farms.com Home   News

MyFarm Crop Management Calculator

The MyFarm Crop Production Cost Calculator (XLS 817KB) enables farmers to estimate the annual cash cost of producing field crops on their land. Knowing the cost of production is essential to management, marketing strategy and risk management planning and to giving a farm the best opportunity for overall profitability.
 
 
MyFarm Example Farm (XLS 1.11MB)
 
 
MyFarm calculates:
  1. marginal returns
  2. break even yields
  3. break even crop prices on total production and remaining unsold inventory
  4. land and machinery cost analysis
  5. cash based financial ratios
Key Features:
  1. based on guidelines for estimating crop production costs (simple and easy to use)
  2. cash production costs on an annual basis (bushel, acre and total farm)
  3. can be used for pre-season planning, growing season management and crop marketing before and after the crop is in the bin
Key analysis:
  1. cost of production
  2. costs per bushel, per acre and total farm
  3. gross revenue estimates
Marketing:
  1. break even prices and yield
  2. average price sold to date
  3. break even price on remaining unsold production
 
Source : Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development

Trending Video

Issues Facing Public Lands Ranchers

Video: Issues Facing Public Lands Ranchers

Public lands ranchers face a complex mix of challenges and opportunities as they navigate the changing landscape of land use policies, environmental regulations, and economic pressures. Kaitlynn Glover, Executive Director of the Public Lands Council, and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Government Affairs, Tim Canterbury, President of the Public Lands Council, and a fifth-generation rancher from Colorado, and Skye Krebs, Oregon rancher and NCBA’s 2025 Policy Division Vice Chair, discuss why public land issues are important not only to Western ranchers, but to the entire cattle industry.