Calculators

"Oklahoma Wheat Stocker Purchase Planner Decision Aid" generates side-by-side comparison of stocker profitability for a wide range of purchase weights. - Instructions : Program

"Oklahoma Wheat Stocker Spreadsheet Decision Aid" generates budgets for wheat stockers given user specified purchase weight. - Instructions : Program

Stocker Receiving Records Spreadsheet is an Excel® spreadsheet designed to assist producers receiving multiple loads of stocker calves to calculate and evaluate Processing Cost, Feed Cost and Treatment Cost from the written records they are currently keeping for each load lot of cattle.  The spreadsheet computes costs totals for each category from entry records for each load and allocates sick pull treatment cost to the appropriate load of stockers.  The program has an optional function that sorts the Load lots into grazing units and allows the producer to record marketing groups from the grazing unit then calculates gross increased value. - Instructions : Program : Example

PRECON2001 Economic aspects of preconditioning programs. - Instructions : Program

RANCHCALC can be used to input cow/calf and stocker information for an individual beef cattle operation.  From these inputs, the program calculates net operating returns and annual cash flow for the ranch under different production-marketing alternatives available to the manager. - Instructions : Program

OSUNRC2006 is written so that the user can select either "as is" moisture basis, or a dry matter basis to develop or check a ration formulation.  For the non-skilled nutritionist, this program may be used to check a feed mixture to see if it meets the NRC recommendations for a given weight and class of growing-finishing cattle. - Instructions : Program

OSU Enterprise Budgets based on Excel spreadsheet software. The spreadsheets are designed to provide a planning and educational tool that contains estimates of production costs and returns based on the current and/or expected economic environment as well as the management practices typical of an area. - see report examples : order program

IFFS - Integrated Farm Financial Statements generates financial statements—projected or actual—useful in decision making and evaluating performance. Projected statements provide insights into anticipated credit needs, cash flows, income levels, and changes in financial ratios, important information for both potential new producers and continuing operations. - order program

Quicken for Farm and Ranch Management Records is a popular commercial record-keeping package that is user friendly, inexpensive, readily available, flexible and widely used. Import options allow you to add a farm category list created at Oklahoma State University that matches the tax Schedule F, minimizing the effort required to develop a beginning chart of accounts. - samples : download manual

Wheat and Wheat-Stocker Production Planner enables a user to describe farm-specific situations and to compare the economic consequences of alternative uses of land seeded to wheat.  It is a microcomputer decision aid program developed to assist wheat producers evaluate the economic consequences of alternative wheat and wheat-stocker production systems. - download wheat production systems : download grain-only vs. stocker plus wheat

Stocker Lease Arrangements : spreadsheet : publication :

Oklahoma Beef Calf Retention Decision Aid 2.0 allows users to compare returns from retained ownership strategies to sale-at-weaning. - Program