- A dairy farm is a complex system.
- Spreadsheet models of the dairy farm physical and financial system help understand how things work, and to allow the trying “what if” scenarios.
- All sorts of sheets can be developed:
- Analysis of performance.
- Management tools.
- Cow feed requirements and ration balance.
- Yearly feed plans.
- Pasture measuring.
- Nutrient water and budgets.
- Financial sheets: depreciation, amortisation, livestock schedule; profit drivers, 5 year budgets.
- Group comparative analysis.
- Forage crop cost comparison.