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Planning budgets

Information useful to farmers planning production, financing and marketing of crops or livestock using cost estimates based on Missouri production practices.

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Fall Tax Schools

Event date: Oct. 29, 2020 - Nov. 4, 2020

MO

MU Fall Tax Schools cover a variety of topics and qualify for IRS continuing education credits and designed to satisfy requirements for continuing professional credit with the Missouri Bar CLE (applied)Participants have the option to sign up for one ...

Missouri Farm Leases - Lafayette/Online

Event date: Nov. 10, 2020

Event time: | 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Higginsville, MO

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports that 35 percent of Missouri farmland is rented. That means that about 9.8 million acres of Missouri agricultural land is rented. Through this program we help producers and landowners to ...

Missouri Farm Leases - Unionville

Event date: Nov. 10, 2020

Event time: | 6:00 pm - 9:15 pm

Unionville, MO

One evening program to educate landowners and tenants on how to develop an equitable farm lease. Topics will include: (1) Current rental rates and trends (2) Items to include in a lease (3) Terminating a farm lease (4) Recreational leases(5) Crop ...

Missouri Farm Leases - West Plains

Event date: Nov. 10, 2020

Event time: | 6:00 pm - 9:15 pm

West Plains, MO

One evening program to educate landowners and tenants on how to develop an equitable farm lease. Topics will include: (1) Current rental rates and trends (2) Items to include in a lease (3) Terminating a farm lease (4) Recreational leases(5) Crop ...

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Five steps to pass the farm to the next generation

Published: Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Farm succession planning should not begin when the head of the family dies, says Wesley Tucker, University of Missouri Extension agricultural economist and succession planning coordinator.Too often, planning starts the day after the ...

Communication matters as you move from 'Grunt I' to CEO

Published: Friday, Sept. 4, 2020

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Who will run the farm?It’s the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about until the owner dies or can no longer run the farm, says Wesley Tucker.Tucker is a fourth-generation farmer and succession planning coordinator ...

Temporary grain storage piles

Published: Friday, Aug. 28, 2020

Characteristics needed to build a temporary grain storage pileA grain storage facility can be constructed as either a short-term or long-term storage facility, depending upon whether a grain aeration system is included. Aeration is a necessary ...

Considerations for bagged storage

Published: Friday, Aug. 28, 2020

Before deciding to use bags for storage, consider these key aspects of successfully using bagged storage:Dry the grainGrain must be clean and dry before being placed into bag storage. Dry corn must be less than 14 percent moisture. Therefore, corn ...

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Southern Missouri Beef Cow-Calf Planning Budget

Publication date: Oct. 1, 2020

This budget presents information useful to southern Missouri beef farmers. The production practices used to develop these cost estimates are common for beef farms in Missouri. Farmers are encouraged to modify this budget to fit their operation. This ...

Northern Missouri Beef Cow-Calf Planning Budget

Publication date: Oct. 1, 2020

This budget presents information useful to northern Missouri beef farmers. The production practices used to develop these cost estimates are common for beef farms in Missouri. Farmers are encouraged to modify this budget to fit their operation. This ...

Beef Heifer Planning Budget

Publication date: Oct. 1, 2020

This budget presents information useful to Missouri beef farmers. The production practices used to develop these cost estimates are common for beef farms in Missouri. Farmers are encouraged to customize this budget to fit their operation. This is ...

Dairy Heifer Planning Budget

Publication date: Oct. 1, 2020

This budget presents information useful to Missouri farmers raising dairy heifers. The production practices used to develop the cost estimates are common in Missouri. Farmers are encouraged to customize this budget to fit their operation with the ...

Beef Backgrounding Planning Budget

Publication date: Oct. 1, 2020

This budget presents information useful to Missouri beef farmers. The production practices used to develop these cost estimates are common for beef farms in Missouri. Farmers are encouraged to customize this budget to fit their operation. This is ...

Dairy (Grazing) Planning Budget

Publication date: Oct. 1, 2020

This budget presents information useful to Missouri dairy farmers. The production practices used to develop the cost estimates are common for grazing dairies in Missouri. Farmers are encouraged to customize this budget to fit their operation with the ...

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Soil testing information (PDF)

Information on submitting soil samples to the MU Soil Testing Laboratory for testing.

Missouri Beef Budget Tool (XLSX)

Farmers can develop custom enterprise budget by using the Missouri Beef Enterprise spreadsheet. This tool allows users to make an enterprise budget for a cow-calf (spring or fall calving), heifer or backgrounding (drylot or pasture) operation.

Missouri farmland values opinion survey

Annual results to a survey designed to determine what people think is happening to Missouri farmland values.

USDA Women in Ag poster (PDF)

Women in Agriculture - USDA Women in Ag connection poster

Partial budget template (downloadable XLS)

Use this straightforward spreadsheet to analyze the financial impact of a potential change in your farming operation.

Crop-share contribution to cost calculator (PDF)

Calculates average share of costs with 50-50 crop rotation, based on MU Extension 2019 crop budgets.

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Based on the life of Annette (Kohlhagen) Fleck, Annie’s Project empowers farm women to be better business partners through networks, managing and organizing critical information.

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