Comprehensive List of Available Dairy Advisory Tools

Financial, production, and benchmarking tools. including a description, cost, location, and required inputs for each tool listed.

Financial Tools


Tool Name / Website	Cost	Purpose	Inputs
IOFC	Free	Determine IOFC and breakeven IOFC	Ration, production, milk price, feed costs
Cash Flow	Free	Project monthly or yearly cash flow and determine COP, breakeven IOFC /margin/class3 price, evaluate costs centers	Profit/loss statement, balance sheet, DHIA 202, cow and farm parameters, ration, feed and crop costs
Profitability Assessment Tool	Free	Evaluates financial ratios and determines production bottlenecks and their economic impact	Profit/loss statement, balance sheet, DHIA 202, cow and farm parameters
Dairy Profit Monitor	Annual fee of $300	Monthly report on production and financial parameters
Dairy Farm Business Summary Program	Free of charge for New York farmers	Compare financial and production to other dairy operations	Profit/loss statement, balance sheet, DHIA 202, cow and farm parameters, ration, feed and crop costs
NE Dairy Benchmark Program	Contact Local Farm Credit branch	Annual or quarterly finiancial and production benchmarking	Financial and production detailed data


Tool Name / Website	Cost	Purpose	Inputs
Penn State Repro Drill Down	Free	Determines areas or reproduction program that are a bottleneck to performance	DHIA 202 and extensive reproduction parameters from dairy producer and/or vet
Dairy Ration Dashboard		Evaluates rations for nutrient requirements	cow, ration parameters
Dairy Dashboard	Free - Login Guest Password Guest	Economic evaluation of production performance	cow and farm parameters
Data Analysis Tools	Free with webinar registration	Production analysis	DHIA 202, cow and farm parameters