VM 577P Herd Production Medicine
2009 Links and Materials
JM Gay
updated
02/06/2009
- 2/5/09 Class
- Livestock Enterprise Budget Spreadsheet Project links in order of
appearance (if links are broken or you find other excellent sources,
please let me know):
-
Enterprise Accounting (bulletin explaining enterprise
accounting)
- Dairy Excel's
15 Measures of Dairy Farm Competitiveness
- U.S. Top Dairies:
Benchmarks
for Success (veterinary costs per cow are in table 4)
-
Critical Control Points for Profitability in the Cow-Calf Enterprise
-
Determining your unit costs of producing a hundred weight of calf
(Dr. Harlan Hughes)
- Examples of
spreadsheet tool based on enterprise budget
- Characteristics and Production Costs of U.S. Cow-Calf Operations
(USDA
ERS bulletin 974-3, 2001)
- Structure, Management, and Performance Characteristics of
Specialized Dairy Farm Businesses in the United States (USDA
ERS AH720,
2000)
- Colorado Livestock Enterprise Budgets (beef, sheep) (pdf
xls)
-
Idaho
Livestock Enterprise Budgets (beef, dairy, sheep, swine – pdf’s
- select year)
-
Iowa Livestock Enterprise Budgets (swine, beef cow-calf,
stocker, feedlot, dairy)
-
Montana Decision Support Software (beef cow-calf – spreadsheets
& PDF)
-
Oklahoma Livestock
Enterprise Budgets (beef
cow-calf example, stocker)
- Wisconsin Center for Dairy
Profitability
-
Sample Costs for Beef Cow-calf Production (California, 2008)
-
Manitoba
- Guidelines for Estimating Cow-Calf Production Costs (pdf
xls)
- Guidelines For Estimating Feedlot Finishing Costs (pdf
xls)
- 1/15/09 Class
- Introduction (PowerPoint
handout pdf)
- Handouts:
- Industry questions (guide for thinking and learning about an
industry - pdf)
- Readings:
-
Professional Fee Service Exercise
- Practitioner Input on Competencies (pdf
entire document)
- Additional lists of expected new graduate competencies are located
at the
top of the "Notes,
Resources and Websites" page for VM 568 Animal Handling
- The paper by KA Ericsson (2004).Deliberate practice and the
acquisition and maintenance of expert performance in medicine and
related domains. Academic Medicine, 79:S70-S81 and materials on
learning are linked under "Other
Materials" from that VM 568 page
- Links
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