Real-life management skills for your farm, ranch or agribusiness

Modules

 

Land Ownership and Leasing
Videos
Slides
Homework
1.
Historical Land Values & Growth
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2.
Returns to Land 1
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3.
Returns to Land 2
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Background to KSU Landbuy 1
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Background to KSU Landbuy 2
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Using KSU Landbuy & Homeworks
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Background for Land Leasing
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8.
Principles for Crop Land Leasing
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Technology and Crop Share Leases
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10.
Cash Leasing
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11.
Flexible Cash Rents
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12.
Using KSU-Lease
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13.
Lease Homework
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14.
Rental Ethics
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KSU Landbuy Homework
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  Answer Key
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KSU Lease Homework
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  Answer Key
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Machinery Ownership and Leasing
Videos
Slides
Homework
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Understanding Machinery Costs
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2.
Fuel Price & Machinery Costs
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3.
Economies of Size
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Benchmarking Machinery Costs
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5.
Machinery Market Valuation
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6.
Acquiring Machinery Services Part 1
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Acquiring Machinery Services Part 2
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Using Machinery Decision Tools & Machinery Homework
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9.
Machinery Trading Strategies
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10.
Economics of Auto-Guidance & Boom
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11.
 Impact of Field Size, Shape & Distance on Machinery Costs
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Own Sprayer Homework
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 Answer Key
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Financial Analysis
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Slides
Homework
Pre-Session: Quicken vs. QuickBooks
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Quicken or QuickBooks Producer Version
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QuickBooks for Agricultural Financial Records
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1.
Introduction to Financial Analysis
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2.
Enterprise Budgeting
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3.
Financial Statements
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4.
Financial & Economic Benchmarking
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5.
Partial Budgeting
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6.
Financial Component Whole Farm Plan
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Financial Analysis Spreadsheet
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Farm Size Projection
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DuPont Financial Analysis System
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Deferred Taxes Spreadsheet
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Farm Finance Score Card
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Case Farm (New!)
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Farm Management Guide - An Integrated Financial Management Package
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Homework 1
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Homework 1 Answers
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Homework 2
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Homework 2 Answers
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Homework 3
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Homework 3 Answers
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(1) pdf
(2) pdf
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MF-570 Soybean Cost-Return Budget in Northeast Kansas
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MF-571 Corn Cost-Return Budget in Northeast Kansas
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MF-572 Wheat Cost-Return Budget in Northeast Kansas
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MF-1013 Prices for Crop and Livestock Cost-Return Budgets
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Farm Management Guide - Beef Cow-Calf Enterprise
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Farm Management Guide - Cash Flow Projection for Operating Loan Determination
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Farm Management Guide - Computation of Deferred Tax Liability - An Example
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Farm Management Guide - Wheat Cost-Return Budget in North Central Kansas
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Farm Management Guide - Wheat Cost-Return Budget in Northeast Kansas
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Farm Management Guide - Wheat Cost-Return Budget in South Central Kansas
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Farm Management Guide - Wheat Cost-Return Budget in Southeast Kansas
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Farm Management Guide - Wheat Cost-Return Budget in Western Kansas
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Human Resource Management
Videos
Slides
Homework
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Overview & Communications
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2.
Recruiting & Selecting Employees
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3.
Orientation & Training
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4.
Compensation
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5.
Evaluation, Discipline & Termination
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6.
Managing a Family Workforce
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7.
Payroll Items Prior To & During Hiring
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Calculating a Paycheck
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Payroll Reporting & Deposit
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10.
Fringe Benefits
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11.
Example Payroll Calculations
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Payroll Manual
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Payroll Records
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Policy and Tax Management
Videos
Slides
Homework
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U.S. Commodity Programs - Part 1
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U.S. Commodity Programs - Part 2
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Farm Taxation: Current Farm Issues Under Recent Tax Acts
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Farm Taxation: Special Issues Affecting Farmers
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5.
Limited Liability Companies: Agricultural Applications
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Risk Management
Videos
Slides
Homework
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 Risk Overview
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2.
 Measuring Risk
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3.
 Fundamental Pinrciples of Risk Management
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4.
 Making Decisions Under Risk
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5.
 Financial Risk: Risk with Leverage
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6.
 Price & Yield Risk: Combining Marketing with Crop Insurance
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7.
 SUpplemental REvenue (SURE)
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Marketing
Videos
Slides
Homework
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Grain Marketing Part 1 - Prices, Principles & Marketing Tools
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Grain Marketing Part 2 - Decision Making Trends & Tools
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Grain Futures and Storage Hedging - Part 1
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Grain Futures and Storage Hedging - Part 2
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Strategic Marketing in a Changing Marketplace
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Strategic Marketing: Simplifying the Process
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Strategic Marketing: Strategies for Success
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Spatial Grain Market Economics: Handling & Transportation
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Livestock Futures and Options Markets and Hedging Overview
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10.
 Livestock Markets Information Sources and Uses
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