Corn and soybean acres have shifted back and forth like a bungee cord in recent years, with producers annually assessing their options based on current year prices. However, few take the time to consider the long-term implications for their farm profit margins. Iowa State’s Kelvin Leibold developed a spreadsheet to assess the financial implications of various corn/soybean rotations over a six year period. Yes, we’re featuring the third Iowa State spreadsheet in a row, but it was the best spreadsheet available for assisting you in this year’s planting decisions, allowing side-by-side comparisons of different rotation sequences.
This valuable tool is our Farm Futures Spreadsheet of the Month. The 106-kilobyte spreadsheet should work with Excel 2000, 2002 or Excel XP. Just visit www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/crops/xls/a1-20croprotation.xls
Do you have a spreadsheet that’s made a difference on your operation that you’d be willing to share with other readers? Drop us a line at FarmFutures@farmprogress.com with a description of the spreadsheet. We’ll pay $75 if we feature your farmer-written non-commercial program as our Spreadsheet of the Month.
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