farm field record keeping jim dunn agricultural economist penn state university
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Farm Field Record Keeping
Jim Dunn
Agricultural Economist
Penn State University
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Serbian crop farm
• 30 employees
• 6 bookkeepers
• 1,600 acres
• Social security
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Introduction
• Important to determine the profitability of a crop or livestock enterprise
• Also used to evaluate new seed, decide when to take a dairy cow from the herd, and other decisions
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Record Keeping
Good records contribute to good decisions.
Records reduce environmental risk. Decisions based on records are only as
good as the data. Records reduce environmental and legal
exposure.
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Record Keeping (continued)
A record-keeping database: – Helps organize good data.– Provides an operation and maintenance
checklist. – Provides documentation of implemented
conservation practices.
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What Records Should be Kept?
Site information Production information Permits of certificates Manure field application Internal inspection data Mortality disposal
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Crop production records
For each field
• What did you plant? Why?
• When did you plant?
• What seed?
• Did you get a soil test?
• What fertilizer did you apply? How much? What day?
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Crop records (continued)
• Herbicide, insecticide, and fungicide applications– What product? When? How much?
• Other field work– Plowing, cultivating?
• Harvest activities
• What date? Total production? Quality? Problems?
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Crop records (continued)
• How much time did each operation take?
• What did you pay for the purchased inputs?
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Using Records
• Evaluating seed
• Evaluating fields
• Evaluating chemicals
• Making crop choices
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Software
• http://cdp.wisc.edu/crop_software.htm
• Lots of links out of date
• Carl Shaffer – data base – developed his own – What field – history – map –dates planted,
etc., variety – sprays, etc., yields, problems