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Training sessions to help users and others interested in the Agricultural Budget Calculator (ABC) program are scheduled as needed. Q&A help sessions are scheduled on an ongoing basis. See the current list of scheduled sessions below.
Have a group of producers interested in learning during a “hands-on” session? Let us know and we can set up in-person training programs in your area. Email Glennis McClure, extension eductor and farm and ranch management analyst.
Q&A Sessions on ABC
Hop on Zoom at the scheduled times below and we’ll help you with your ABC questions. Feedback regarding the program is always welcomed!
ABC Q&A Schedule:
- Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 11:30 a.m. CT
- Monday, April 20, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. CT
- Wednesday, April 27, 2026 at Noon CT
- Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 12:30 p.m. CT
- Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 12:30 p.m. CT
Click the "Register" button below. Upon your registration to any session, the online Zoom link and passcode will be emailed to you.
Check the Q&A page for information on some common questions about the ABC program.
In-Person Training
Interested in an in-person ABC workshop in your area? We can arrange to make that happen! Find out more and contact us.
Short "How-to" ABC Program Videos
1. Creating an Account and Signing In
This video demonstrates how to establish an Agricultural Budget Calculator (ABC) program account. With Glennis McClure, Extension Educator, Farm and Ranch Management Analyst, UNL. Runtime: 2:41
2. Creating a New Budget Year
This ‘how to’ video demonstrates how to create a new budget year. It’s important that enterprise budgets are created and updated with current information for a given year. The annual or yearly rates and prices tab in ‘Manage Inputs’ is where you’ll find the screen to create a new budget year in ABC. With Glennis McClure, Extension Educator, Farm and Ranch Management Analyst, UNL. Runtime: 5:50.
3. Creating a Crop Budget from Scratch
How do I begin creating a crop enterprise budget? With Glennis McClure, Extension Educator, Farm and Ranch Management Analyst, UNL. Runtime: 3:59.
4. Duplicating a Crop Budget and Downloading UNL Budgets in ABC
In this brief video, we demonstrate how to duplicate a crop enterprise budget that was created and resides in your ABC account (current or prior year), including a quick demonstration of reviewing and downloading a UNL Nebraska crop budget into an ABC account. After specific budgets are copied or duplicated into an ABC account, it can be renamed and then any or all data can be updated within the downloaded or duplicated budget that is specific to the user’s operation. With Glennis McClure, Extension Educator, Farm and Ranch Management Analyst, UNL. Runtime: 5:36.
5. Creating a Livestock Enterprise Budget from Scratch
How do I begin creating a livestock enterprise budget that reflects my current operation or interest? With Glennis McClure, Extension Educator, Farm and Ranch Management Analyst, UNL. Runtime: 4:57.
6. Duplicating a Livestock Budget in ABC
In this brief video, we demonstrate how to duplicate a livestock enterprise budget that was created and resides in your ABC account from a current or prior budget year. With Glennis McClure, Extension Educator, Farm and Ranch Management Analyst, UNL. Runtime: 3:12.
7. Using Sample Nebraska Cattle Budgets to Modify and Create Your Budgets
This video demonstrates how a user can download a sample Nebraska livestock (cattle) budget and modify it for their operation. It includes the steps to take in downloading a UNL Nebraska cattle budget, then copy it to the relevant budget year in the user’s ABC account. From there, the budget can be modified by working through the livestock budgeting tabs and entering updated figures. With Glennis McClure, Extension Educator, Farm and Ranch Management Analyst, UNL. Runtime: 4:52.
Full-Length Tutorials
These five full-length tutorials were prepared early on as the ABC program was launched initially for crop enterprise budgeting. They are numbered in sequence. As the program has developed, parts of the program have changed, however it still has the same general look and feel. Viewing these videos should provide more in-depth instruction on using the program to create crop budgets.
1. Determining the Enterprise Data Needed in Budgeting
This tutorial video provides a brief overview on the purpose of the ABC program, the type of data to gather to utilize as you begin creating an enterprise budget (crop focused). Included is instruction on establishing an ABC account of your own. Runtime: 8:54
2. Creating New Enterprises, Yearly Rates and Prices, and Field Operation Entries
The tutorial covers steps to creating a crop enterprise, including naming the enterprise, setting up the budget year, and then adding field operation entries. Runtime: 19:18
3. Managing Inputs for Annual Budgets
This video provides more detailed information on entering information in the “Manage Inputs” area including materials, power units, implements, labor, and irrigation systems. Runtime: 15:04
4. Copying and Modifying a UNL Crop Budget as One of Your Own
This video shows where the Nebraska (UNL) budgets are found in ABC and can be downloaded and modified in a user’s account (if they choose not to create their own from scratch). Each year the Nebraska crop budgets are created using ABC and are available for download. Since 2025, cattle budget examples have been added to ABC. Runtime: 11:35
5. Completing a Crop Enterprise Budget and Viewing Reports
In this tutorial we review the enterprise budget report(s) and supplemental reports that are created in the ABC program. Runtime: 8:38
Risk Module Demos
Risk Module Overview and Corn Example
Reference in this video about the risk module in ABC is made to farm.unl.edu webpage that has been updated to cap.unl.edu/abc where updated information on the ABC program is available. The risk module in ABC provides some insight on considering financial risk exposure and how different levels of federal crop insurance might cover some risk. Runtime: 11:10
Risk Module Soybean Example
Reference in this video about the risk module in ABC is made to farm.unl.edu webpage that has been updated to cap.unl.edu/abc where updated information on the ABC program is available. The risk module in ABC provides some insight on considering financial risk exposure and how different levels of federal crop insurance might cover some risk. Runtime: 12:19
Other How-Tos
More on Duplicating Budgets from Prior Years
In this ABC tutorial, this is a more in-depth demonstration on duplicating a crop enterprise budget that was created and resides in your ABC account (current or prior year). With the duplication feature in ABC, a “base” budget for a crop can be built and then copied as many times as necessary. Let’s say you have 5 fields of dryland corn. After completing a budget for the first field, you can duplicate the enterprise budget several times, each time renaming the new budget to fit the farm, or field, or the budget situation. After a budget is copied or duplicated into your ABC account, a new budget name can be added, along with acre updates. If a copy is being made to a new or different budget year, it is important to cross check and update any material and service prices for a given year, along with labor, machinery, and equipment changes for the budget year that the duplicated budgets are going to. Runtime 12:23.
Entering TAPS Decisions Into the ABC Program/Creating TAPS Enterprise Budgets
This video demonstrates how TAPS team members can utilize the ABC program to create their TAPS crop budget. Updates can be made as decisions are made during the production season. Runtime: 14:47
The ABC program and materials are based upon work supported by USDA/NIFA under Award Number 2018-70027-28586, 2021-70027-34694 and 2023-70027-40444.