Feed Ration and Cost Record
Record what each group is fed and what feed actually costs across a year, which is usually the largest bill on a smallholding.
Livestock and smallholding · LK-46
A free printable smallholding summary — every cost against everything produced or sold, and the difference, worked out once a year.
2 pages. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
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Find out what the holding actually costs against what it produces, which is a question most smallholdings avoid asking.
Smallholders, homesteaders and anyone deciding whether to keep going or change enterprise.
The layout is fixed at a size that fits both A4 and US Letter, so the A4 and Letter files are visually identical and print at full size on either. Rows are set at a height that an adult can actually write a date and a few words into with a pen — most printable tables are built in a word processor and never tested with one.
No. It is arithmetic on your own figures for your own use. Whether your holding is a business or a hobby, what may be deducted and what must be declared are questions for an accountant and for the tax rules where you are.
Record what each group is fed and what feed actually costs across a year, which is usually the largest bill on a smallholding.
Set a budget out on paper and record what actually happened next to it, so the gap is visible line by line rather than only at the bottom.
Work out what one job actually cost, so the next quote is based on a figure rather than on a feeling about the last one.
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