Enterprise Budget & Benchmarking Tools

Dairy

Dairy Enterprise Budgets – 2025

This enterprise budget is a means to analyze the profitability of a particular enterprise. This enterprise budget is intended to analyze a dairy budget, per cow over three levels of production. It includes a machinery and building cost calculator, feed cost calculator and sensitivity analysis.

Dairy Sheep Enterprise Budget

The UW Center for Integrated Agriculture spreadsheet to help farmers make financial and management decisions about new or existing dairy sheep enterprises.  It is applicable to most kinds and sizes of enterprises.

Dairy Goat Enterprise Budget

The UW Center for Integrated Agriculture spreadsheet to help farmers make financial and management decisions about new or existing dairy goat enterprises.  It is applicable to most kinds and sizes of enterprises.

WI Dairy Farm Ratio Benchmarking Tool

Compares dairy farm’s financial status with +500 dairy farms in the State of Wisconsin. Data is from the AgFA (Agriculture Financial Advisor) database: 2000-2008. Calculates 15 Financial measures. REQUIRES: Excel 2007.

Crops

Visit Extension’s Crops and Soils webpage for information on the Wisconsin custom rate guide and UW Crop Enterprise Tool

Whole Farm Profit Management tools

The Veggie, Livestock and OGrain Compass Tools are free downloadable spreadsheets created at the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, University of Wisconsin-Madison. These tools help farmers actively manage for increased farm profits by helping them understand their cost of production, by product and by market channel. This enables farmers to make strategic decisions to adjust prices, reduce costs, shift market channel focus, reduce or drop unprofitable products, and expand production of their most profitable ventures.

Pasture budgets 

Spreadsheets allow farms to compare their costs to an example farm budget for established pasture and pasture establishment, with round bales, or wrapped round bales. The budget includes sensitivity analysis and machinery expenses.

Livestock

Visit Extension’s Livestock webpage for information on decision tools assist beef, small ruminant, and swine producers in making the best financial choices for your operations.