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Creating a Field Report - With Production Costs - in Early Versions of Farm Trac

Did you know that you could create a report that will help you figure out your cost of production without using Farm Fund$? With Trac Plus, it's easy to assign costs to fields and create reports. If you haven't updated to version 9 or higher yet, here's a work-around that will relate production costs to fields.

You can create a Field Report directly from an older verions of Farm Trac, then use a Custom Farming Rates book to estimate the rates associated with the items listed on the Field Report.

To create this report:

In Farm Trac,
Click - History
Click - Crops
Click - Field Report

This report will print the crop and field(s) you selected and tell you what your inputs were for the field(s). It will tell you what supplies were used and in what quantity, what equipment was used and how much time or acres each piece of equipment covered, as well as your yields.

Next, get a Custom Farming Rate book (from your county extension agent). Print the Field Report and then write the figures found in the Custom Farming Rate book on it. Add up the figures and you will have a close estimate of what it cost you to farm that field(s). (You might want to change the Custom Rates to suite your farming style and equipment costs, to your best estimate.)

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