Farm Management Update

Quarterly Publication of Ohio State University Extension

Winter 2002

Farm Management Web Sites

AEDE Farm Management Page http://aede.ag.ohio-state.edu/programs/FarmManagement/ Ohio Enterprise Budgets http://aede.ag.ohio-state.edu/people/moore.301/index.htm Ohio Farm Custom Rates http://aede.ag.ohio-state.edu/people/moore.301/custompage.htm Farm Rental Fact Sheet Series http://ohioline.osu.edu/fr-fact/index.html Farm Management Update Newsletter http://ohioline.osu.edu/fm-news/index.html AEDE Outlook and Policy Site http://aede.osu.edu/programs/outlook/ USDAFinancial Security in Later Life: Preparing for retirement and potential long-term care costs http://www.reeusda.gov/financialsecurity/ Center for Farm Financial ManagementFrom the makers of FINPAC: Includes FINBIN, a farm financial database http://www.cffm.umn.edu/ Midwest Plan ServiceA large collection of farm management publications for download or purchase http://www.mwpshq.org/ Northwest District Farm Management Web Site http://northwest.osu.edu/farm_mgt/index.html East District Farm Management Web Site http://east.osu.edu/farmmgt/fm.html Southwest District Farm Management Web Site http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~swest/farm/farm.htm USDA-ERS: economic analysis, bulletins, and data for all agricultural sectors http://www.ers.usda.gov/ USDA Prices: annual summary of prices paid and received by farmers, state, region, and national scope http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/nassr/price/zap-bb/ Ohio Agricultural StatisticsODA summary of state agricultural data http://www.state.oh.us/agr/stats.htm Weather Channel www.weather.com

The Internet has many useful web sites related to farm management. Producers can retrieve everything from commodity prices to the local weather forecast. Listed on this page are some sites that may be helpful to Ohio producers.

Helpful Hints

The following are some helpful hints that may make your Internet surfing more productive:

• Consider the source of the information.

  Just because information is on the Internet does not mean that it is correct or accurate. Anyone can put a web page on the Internet. If you use web sites to make farm management decisions, make sure you can depend on the reliability of the information. Government, university, and recognizable commercial sites are a good place to start.

• Viruses from the Internet.

  You cannot get a virus from the Internet by merely browsing web sites. You can only get a virus by downloading files. Therefore, when downloading files from the Internet, be certain you can trust the source of the download.

• Search Engines.

  Sites such as google.com and yahoo.com allow the user to search for web sites by entering key words into the search engine. If a search is unsuccessful, try using different but related words or rearranging the word order. If the search provides too many sites, use more precise wording and do a search within the previous search results.