By: Barry Ward, Leader, Production Business Management, Ohio State University Extension, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics
Newly updated OSU Extension Backgrounding and Stocker Cattle Enterprise Budgets for 2012 have been completed and posted to the Farm Management Website of the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics. Updated Enterprise Budgets can be viewed and downloaded from the following website:
http://aede.osu.edu/programs/farmmanagement/budgets
Our enterprise budgets are compiled on downloadable Excel Spreadsheets that contain macros for ease of use. Users can input their own production and price levels to calculate their own numbers. Detailed footnotes are included to help explain methodologies used to obtain the budget numbers.
Authors of these swine budgets include: Steve Boyles, Extension Beef Specialist, OSU Extension; John Grimes, Extension Beef Coordinator, Piketon South Centers, Barry Ward, Leader, Production Business Management, OSU Extension and OSU Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics ; and Seth Wilkerson, Undergraduate Student, Agribusiness and Applied Economics, OSU Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics.

