Financial Management

Publications

• Cost and return estimates for cow/calf ranches in five regions of Arizona
  http://cals.arizona.edu/AREC/ext/budgets/cow-calfranchbudgets.pdf
  
  
• Articles from the Arizona Ranchers' Management Guide
  • Supplementation During Drought [410k pdf]
    
  • Drought Assistance Programs and Tax Implications of Drought-Induced Livestock Sales [51k pdf]
    
  • Overview of Ranch Financial Analysis Spreadsheet [118k pdf]
    
  • Evaluating Management Decisions [331k pdf]
    
  • Beef Cow Share Lease Arrangements [33k pdf]
    
  • Least Cost Feed Rations on Your Personal Computer [21k pdf]
    
  • Value of Pregnancy Testing [386k pdf]
    
  • Actual and Projected Cash Flows [112k pdf]
    
  • Modified Cash Projections [110k pdf]
    
    
• Articles from the Western Extension Marketing Committee's Managing for Today's Cattle Market and Beyond
  • The Costs of Raising Replacement Heifers and the Value of a Purchased Versus Raised Replacement http://cals.arizona.edu/arec/wemc/cattlemarket/Cost_of_Raising_Replacement.pdf
    
    
  • Working with Your Lender in Times of Financial Stress - http://cals.arizona.edu/arec/wemc/cattlemarket/WkWthLnd.pdf
    
    
  • Should Producers Attempt to Behave Counter-Cyclically During Cattle Cycles? http://cals.arizona.edu/arec/wemc/cattlemarket/ShouldProducers.pdf
    
    
  • Profiting from the Cattle Cycle: Alternative Cow Herd Investment Strategies http://cals.arizona.edu/arec/wemc/cattlemarket/Profiting_from_Cattle_Cycle.pdf
    
    
• USDA publications
  • Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook LDP-M-99 Sept. 24, 2002
    http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/so/view.asp?f=livestock/ldp-mbb/
    
    
  • Managing Farm Risk: Issues and Strategies: a special issue of Agricultural Outlook magazine, Feb. 2000. http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/agOutlook/Feb2000/AoReprint/AOreprint.pdf
    
    
  • U. S. Crop Insurance: Premiums, Subsidies, and Participation from Agricultural Outlook magazine, Dec. 2001. http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/agoutlook/dec2001/ao287g.pdf
    
    
  • Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook LDP-M-99 Sept. 24, 2002 Electronic Outlook Report from the Economic Research Service - http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/so/view.asp?f=livestock/ldp-mbb/
    
    
  • Managing Farm Risk: Issues and Strategies: a special issue of Agricultural Outlook magazine, Feb. 2000. http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/agOutlook/Feb2000/AoReprint/AOreprint.pdf
    
    
  • U. S. Crop Insurance: Premiums, Subsidies, and Participation from Agricultural Outlook magazine, Dec. 2001. http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/agoutlook/dec2001/ao287g.pdf

Websites

• Before you call for Federal Disaster Relief Fact sheet - http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~disaster/facts/relief.html
• Western Extension Marketing Committee - http://cals.arizona.edu/arec/wemc/wemc.html
  
• National Drought Mitigation Center - http://www.drought.unl.edu/
  
  
• USDA
  • Low interest loans for drought relief are available from FSA - http://www.fsa.usda.gov/edso/
  • USDA Drought Assistance Programs - http://drought.fsa.usda.gov/assistance.asp
  • National Drought Policy Commission (news and reports) - http://www.fsa.usda.gov/drought/default.htm
  • Congressional Testimony by USDA Chief Economist on Drought - http://www.usda.gov/agency/oce/oce/congressional_testimony/kc.html
  • American Indian Livestock Feed Program Fact Sheet - http://www.fsa.usda.gov/pas/publications/facts/html/amerind99.htm
  • Crop Disaster Program Fact Sheet - http://www.fsa.usda.gov/pas/publications/facts/html/cropdis01a.htm
  • Dairy Production Disaster Assistance Program Fact Sheet - http://www.fsa.usda.gov/pas/publications/facts/html/dairy_production_disaster_assist.htm
  • Disaster Debt Set-Aside Program Fact Sheet - http://www.fsa.usda.gov/pas/publications/facts/html/debtset02.htm
  • Emergency Loan Program Fact Sheet - http://www.fsa.usda.gov/pas/publications/facts/html/emer02.htm

Other Resources

• Article: Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
• News Release: Arizona Ranchers Qualify for Relief Payments (PDF format)
• USDA News Release: Veneman Designates Arizona as Drought Disaster Area
• Drought Management: Economics of Culling Decisions and Tax Considerations (PPT format 207kb)
• Evaluating Management Decisions Under Drought Conditions: Utilizing the U of A Ranch Analysis Program
  (PPT format 214kb)