B36—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 7,1984
Brockett's Ag Advice
New Year
As you start a new year why not
do yourself a favor. Make one
resolution - to keep a good usuable
set of records for 1964. Then pin
this resolution on the bulletin
board on the kitchen refrigerator,
on your farm office wall and on the
conspicuous bathroom wall. Have
someone in the family be
responsible each month to replace
that paper containing the
resolution with a fresh one. Give a
prize at the end of the year to the
most inspiring one.
Last week I suggested making
an inventory. That could be part of
your record keeping. If the day
ever came that all the farmers in
my area had good records, and
used them, I’d probably be as
happy as an old hog in a mud
puddle on a hot July day. Most
farmers use records solely for tax
reporting. What a waste of a
valuable resource.
Your Enterprise
Regardless of your farm en
terprise speciality records are
important. If you are not keeping
and using records to determine
production costs, you are not
making as much money as you
could. For some of you wise guys
out there I am only taking about
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legit farm enterprises not “the
weed” or “joy juice.”
Time and again I work with a
farmer who complains that he is
not making as much income as he
should. The phrase “someday the
public is going to wake up find
no farmers and no food” is a cop
out for those who are looking for
excuses to not keep and use
records. For those of you who think
this is a statement you or your
generation has first concocted,
think again. Adam probably said it
to Eve just before the snake came
into the act.
Records and Analysis
There is a lot of help available
thru “Extension” as well as
private organizations to those who
want good records. What are the
criterias for good usuable records?
1. it must be simple and easy to
keep, 2. it must have enough detail
so the farm manager can look at it
a year later and understand what it
says, 3. it must have enough detail
so the information can be used to
analyze and to project the farm
business, 4. it must be usuable for
tax reporting, credit deter
mination, and managerial decision
making.
Farmers are basically ingeneous
people. They could keep good
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