Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) Resources

Selected Factsheets and Publications

• Budgeting Farm Machinery Costs, Order No. 01-075
• Leasing Farm Equipment, Order No. 01-003
• Guide to Custom Farmwork and Short-term Equipment Rental, Order No. 07-019
• Agronomy Guide for Field Crops, Publication 811
• Guide to Weed Control, Publication 75
• Field Crop Protection Guide, Publication 812
  

A full listing of publications is available on the OMAFRA website www.ontario.ca/omafra and can be ordered through ServiceOntario, available:

- online at www.publications.serviceontario.ca
- by telephone to the ServiceOntario Contact Centre

Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
416-326-5300
416-325-3408 (TTY)
1-800-668-9938 Toll-free across Canada
1-800-268-7095 TTY Toll-free across Ontario

- in person at ServiceOntario Centres throughout the province.

OMAFRA has excellent tools and information to help manage your farm business at the Agricultural Business Management section www.ontario.ca/agbusiness. Results of the 2006 Custom Farmwork and Equipment Rental Rates survey are available here. The Ontario Enterprise Budgets, also found on the OMAFRA website, has budgets for cost of production, including field crops, posted with two display options. You can download a Budgeting Tool Excel file, modify the numbers to reflect your operation and then the file will complete the calculations. The Budgeting Tool also lets you assess the potential affect of production and marketing risk factors and risk management strategies. Or you can view, and then print Manual Budget Forms that have a Sample Cost and a Your Farm column to input numbers manually in hard copy.

The Field Crop Budgets are updated by John Molenhuis, Business Analysis and Cost of Production Program Lead, OMAFRA, Brighton (john.molenhuis@ontario.ca) and Brian Hall, Edible Beans and Canola Specialist, OMAFRA, Stratford (brian.hall@ontario.ca).