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Iowa State University

Machinery Management publication series by William Edwards and Mark Hanna:  http://www.extension.iastate.edu/pubs/fm3.htm

 

Pm-695  Fieldwork Days in Iowa

Pm-696  Estimating Field Capacity of Farm Machines

Pm-709  Fuel Required for Field Operations

Pm-710  Estimating Farm Machinery Costs

Pm-786  Combine Ownership versus Custom Hire

Pm-787  Acquiring Farm Machinery Services

Pm-952  Farm Machinery Selection

Pm-1373  Joint Machinery ownership

Pm-1450  Transferring Ownership of Farm Machinery

Pm-1860  Replacement Strategies for Farm Machinery

 


Kansas State University:  www.agmanager.info/farmmgt/machinery/default.asp.

MF-477    A Look at Machinery Costs

MF-1011  Machinery Replacement Concepts

MF-2583  Custom Rates and Total Cost to Own and Operate Farm Machinery

MF-2240  Farm Machinery Operation Cost Calculations

 


 

Ohio State University

Robert Moore

http://aede.osu.edu/people/moore.301//index.htm

 

Marvin Batte:http://aede.osu.edu/programs/VanBuren/Research-PrecisionFarming.htm                                                       

 


Mid West Plans Service

 

Purchasing and Leasing Farm Equipment NCR-615:  www.mwpshq.org/catalog.html.

 


 

Machinery Management software:

 

The Lease Analyzer spreadsheet can be obtained by:

 

·       downloading it from the internet at : http://agebb.missouri.edu/mgt/equipmnt.htm.

 

·       writing to Ray Massey, University of Missouri, Department of Agriculture Economics, 200 Mumford Hall, Columbia, MO 65211.

 

 

“Combine Financing Model,” by Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois.  Downloadable from: http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/farm.doc/finance/business.html

 

 

“LEASEVBUY.XLS,”  by Bruce Jones, Center for Dairy Profitability, University of Wisconsin.  Downloadable from:  http://cdp.wisc.edu/Decision Making Tools.htm.         

 

 

“Buy-Lease-Rental/Custom Hire,” by Duane Griffith, 210 Linfield Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 59717.  Tel. 406-994-2580, e-mail:  acxdg@montana.edu

 

 

“BUY OR LEASE: A Microcomputer Program to Analyze the Economics of Alternative Methods of Financing Farm Machinery,” by Herbert Hinman and Gayle Willet, Washington State University. Available from: http://coopext.cahe.wsu.edu/infopub/mcp0015/mcp0015.htm

 

 

“Purdue Machinery Cost Calculator.”  Howard Doster and Timothy G. Baker:  http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/

 



 
Updated:  March, 2004

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