A new Microsoft Excel spreadsheet has been developed to provide economic information on machinery issues commonly faced by farmers. The spreadsheet will 1) calculate the probabilities of being able to complete machinery operations between beginning and ending dates, 2) calculate the costs of tillage and planting operations, and 3) calculate the cost of combining. The spreadsheet is named Machinery Economics and is part of the FAST decision aids available for download at farmdoc (see http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/finance/business.html).
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