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<blockquote data-quote="Bama" data-source="post: 488396" data-attributes="member: 1184"><p>Everthing I buy is charged to the cows. I also buy and sell calves. Everthing is charged on a per day basis. I take all expenses, down to the last cent. This number is divided buy the number of total "cow days". Then each cow is charged this number times the number of days she was on the farm. I always have a pretty good total of what each one is costing me at any given time. The numbers are not exact until the end of the year. At years end all the numbers are in and divided between all the cows. I also keep track of the stuff carried over from last year and carried over to the next. This way I can get a yearly cost. I also have a column that gives me a total from a cows first day until her last on my place. I wrote a program with excell to keep track of everthing. I could not find a commerical one that would do everthing I needed. Each cow or calf has its owns sheet. There are summary sheets that take data from each cow sheet generates a report. I also have another book that all expenses are entered into. Each cost has its own sheet.(feed,salt and mineral, health and medicine, etc...) All of this cost is added up and charged to each animal by number of days on farm. I realize this is over the top for some folks. I am somewhat of a nerd I guess, but I just have to know if this is the best place for my money to be invested or if I could do better putting it somewhere else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bama, post: 488396, member: 1184"] Everthing I buy is charged to the cows. I also buy and sell calves. Everthing is charged on a per day basis. I take all expenses, down to the last cent. This number is divided buy the number of total "cow days". Then each cow is charged this number times the number of days she was on the farm. I always have a pretty good total of what each one is costing me at any given time. The numbers are not exact until the end of the year. At years end all the numbers are in and divided between all the cows. I also keep track of the stuff carried over from last year and carried over to the next. This way I can get a yearly cost. I also have a column that gives me a total from a cows first day until her last on my place. I wrote a program with excell to keep track of everthing. I could not find a commerical one that would do everthing I needed. Each cow or calf has its owns sheet. There are summary sheets that take data from each cow sheet generates a report. I also have another book that all expenses are entered into. Each cost has its own sheet.(feed,salt and mineral, health and medicine, etc...) All of this cost is added up and charged to each animal by number of days on farm. I realize this is over the top for some folks. I am somewhat of a nerd I guess, but I just have to know if this is the best place for my money to be invested or if I could do better putting it somewhere else. [/QUOTE]
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