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<blockquote data-quote="alisonb" data-source="post: 934585" data-attributes="member: 13050"><p>Owner labor is an indirect cost. It should be considered an offset to net income because the farmer would have had to make money some other way, were he or she not farming.</p><p>Many farm budgets do not include costs of own labor which is wrong in my opinion, you are running a business. Apart from that, what happens when the farmer gets a little older and can no longer handle all the work, or there is a catastrophe, or the operation increases substantially and help needs to be called in, maybe not 'own labor' but still labor that has to be budgeted for - there are a lot of examples I can use. </p><p>You have to pay yourself a realistic wage. With that money allocated to you, you will pay for insurance or/and retirement benefits etc. which you would have received had you been working for someone else. It is also a mental thing, many people tire of the same old thing especially when they are not being compensated, budgeting/paying a wage and reaching your goal is a motivator.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alisonb, post: 934585, member: 13050"] Owner labor is an indirect cost. It should be considered an offset to net income because the farmer would have had to make money some other way, were he or she not farming. Many farm budgets do not include costs of own labor which is wrong in my opinion, you are running a business. Apart from that, what happens when the farmer gets a little older and can no longer handle all the work, or there is a catastrophe, or the operation increases substantially and help needs to be called in, maybe not 'own labor' but still labor that has to be budgeted for - there are a lot of examples I can use. You have to pay yourself a realistic wage. With that money allocated to you, you will pay for insurance or/and retirement benefits etc. which you would have received had you been working for someone else. It is also a mental thing, many people tire of the same old thing especially when they are not being compensated, budgeting/paying a wage and reaching your goal is a motivator. [/QUOTE]
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