back to FAQ's or Tips
TIP: Farm Trac
Creating a Field Report - With Production Costs
- in Early Versions of Farm Trac
Did you know that you could create a report that will help
you figure out your cost of production without using
Farm Fund$? With Trac Plus, it's easy to assign costs to fields
and create reports. If you haven't updated to version 9 or
higher yet, here's a work-around that will relate production
costs to fields.
You can create a Field Report directly from an older verions
of Farm Trac, then use a Custom Farming Rates book to estimate
the rates associated with the items listed on the Field Report.
To create this report:
In Farm Trac,
Click - History
Click - Crops
Click - Field Report
This report will print the crop and field(s) you selected
and tell you what your inputs were for the field(s). It will
tell you what supplies were used and in what quantity, what
equipment was used and how much time or acres each piece of
equipment covered, as well as your yields.
Next, get a Custom Farming Rate book (from your county extension
agent). Print the Field Report and then write the figures
found in the Custom Farming Rate book on it. Add up the figures
and you will have a close estimate of what it cost you to
farm that field(s). (You might want to change the Custom Rates
to suite your farming style and equipment costs, to your best
estimate.)
Share
a tip of your own!
|
