Agricultural Budget Calculator Training Sessions

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Agricultural Budget Calculator Training

Online sessions using Zoom are offered periodically.  Listed below is the upcoming schedule with various offerings to assist those interested in using the program and /or who want to keep advancing their use. For some, we’re simply online at these times to answer your questions. We don’t want anyone to be stuck on something as they are using ABC!  So please ask!  

Register for one or more upcoming sessions here.

Upon your registration to any virtual session, a Zoom link and passcode will be emailed to you.

In-person and Virtual Training

Virtual Sessions

Online sessions using Zoom are offered periodically.  Check here for the schedule and various offerings for beginners and to assist those that are using the program but want to keep advancing their use or simply have some questions.  We don’t want anyone to be stuck on something!  So please ask!  

Register for one or more upcoming sessions here.

Upon your registration to any virtual session, a Zoom link and passcode will be emailed to you.

ABC Overview and Whole Farm Features, Including Cash Flow (1.5 hours)

For anyone just starting to use the ABC program and wanting to learn how to use this enterprise budgeting resource to its fullest!

Schedule:

  • Wednesday, November 6, 6:30 p.m. CT (During Ag Money Smart Week)
  • Tuesday, November 19, 9:30 a.m. CT
  • Tuesday, December 3, 12:30 p.m. CT

Topics covered: 

  • Use the ABC program to create and/or update budgets by your livestock entities, farms or fields (owned and/or rented ground).
  • Items included in the projected cost of production and anticipated return reports generated by ABC (cash and economic costs and returns).
  • Reconciling operation expenses to account for farm totals.
  • Allocating overhead expenses to enterprises.
  • More about ABC program features, including breakeven, crop comparison, risk analysis, and how to use program features in decision-making.
  • Learn how to use the cash flow feature built into ABC.

ABC Office Hours — Q&A Help Sessions

ABC Q&A help sessions are scheduled regularly to provide an opportunity for program users to join on Zoom to ask questions about making the best use of the ABC program for their operation. You may have questions about the program that others have as well. Hop on Zoom at the scheduled times and we’ll help you out. We appreciate hearing your questions and receiving your feedback on ABC.

Schedule:

  • Monday, September 23, 12:30 p.m. CT
  • Tuesday, November 26, 12:30 p.m. CT
  • Monday, December 9, 6:30 p.m. CT
  • Wednesday, December 18, 12:30 p.m. CT

For planning purposes, it helps us to know if we have participants registered for an ABC program help session.  Click here to register. You’ll receive an email with the Zoom link and passcode to join the session.  

If you have a question and don’t want to wait for a training or Q&A session, please call or send an email to: Glennis McClure, Extension Educator, 402.472.0661, or gmcclure3@unl.edu.

In-person

We’re willing to provide in-person ABC trainings wherever there is interest, and where we can gather at least 6 to 8 producers, farm managers, bankers, or others interested in learning about using ABC.  Attendees are encouraged to bring their own laptop or mobile device to learn how to use the program during workshops. Mobile lab computers can be made available if needed.

Schedule:  Call or email us to schedule a workshop in your area. 

Topics covered at in-person workshops:
  • Using the ABC program to create and/or update crop enterprise budgets for your various farms or fields on owned and/or rented ground. The ABC livestock module will be launching soon and we invite users to test it beginning in early 2024. 

  • Save and print enterprise cost of production and return reports.

  • Get details with hands-on demonstration of combining enterprise budgets using the “whole farm” component of the program, including reconciling operation expenses, and allocating overhead expenses to enterprises. 

  • Learn more about other program features, including breakeven, crop comparison and the risk analysis module and then learn how the cash flow module in the ABC program works. 

Schedule:
  • Thursday, Dec. 5, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Norfolk
    Cost of Production Workshop using the ABC program
    Norfolk Area Chamber of Commerce, 609 W. Norfolk Ave.
    Register here

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This material is based upon work supported by USDA/NIFA under Award Number 2018-70027-28586 and 2021-70027-34694.

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