Trading Corn Silage

Pricing corn silage can be challenging for both buyers and sellers. The publication at right describes a negotiation process buyers and sellers can use to establish fair corn silage market prices. Quality discounts are considered for drought-stressed corn. An Excel spreadsheet may be downloaded to help calculate a price customized for producer inputs and forage quality.

Click here PriceCornSilage.xls to download the Excel spreadsheet

DAS 00-5 - Using a TMR mixing sheet to control rations and determine whole herd costs

This fact sheet explains how to use an Excel template to get TMR print sheets according to cow numbers, batch sizes or percent of the mix. Data entry is limited to ingredient dry matter percent and price and dry matter pounds fed of each ingredient for each TMR formulated in a herd.

Click here TMRMixSheet.xls to download the Excel spreadsheet

DAS 00-2 - Monitoring dry matter intake, milk production, and milk margin

This fact sheet explains how to use an Excel template to monitor dry matter intake, milk production, and milk margin for the dairy herd.

Click here DMImilk1.xls to download the Excel spreadsheet.

Dairy Farm Feed Cost Control

This free publication can be obtained from the Ag Mail Room at University Park, PA. Their phone number is 814-865-6713. The publication contains a disk with the Feed Cost Control Excel template and instructions on how to work the program. The version of this publication on this page contains the worksheets only.

Click here FCCbuttons.xls to download the Excel spreadsheet.