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Calculators available to assist drought management (Drought management)
By Drovers staff  |  Friday, December 06, 2002

.“Producers suffering the most extreme drought conditions probably have the fewest alternatives,” says Tim Petry of the NDSU Extension Service. “A major decision facing producers is deciding whether to try to save the genetic base that has taken years to build or to sell the herd. Both hauling livestock to feed and hauling feed to livestock are expensive, so producers need to evaluate all options available to them.”

   To help producers compare alternatives, Mr. Petry and Dan Nudell, an agricultural economist at NDSU’s Hettinger Research Extension Center, developed several down-loadable spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel format. Anyone wanting to use the spreadsheets should go to the NDSU Extension Service livestock economics Web page at www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/aginfo/lsmkt/livestock.htm and click on “Cow-Calf Drought Management Spreadsheet.”

   Six different spreadsheets are available. Each shows a hypothetical example with a column for producers to put in numbers for their unique situation.

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