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.
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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.
2 pages, in this order:
Printed under the title: What the year cost against what it produced — the one page most smallholdings never fill in.
Arithmetic, not accountancy. This is arithmetic on your own figures. It is not accounting advice and it is not a tax return: what counts as a business, what may be deducted and what must be declared differ by country and by whether your holding is a hobby or a trade. Ask an accountant.
Write-on lines: Holding · Year · Currency · Compiled on
Table, 10 rows: Cost · Detail · Amount · Notes
Table, 18 rows: What · Quantity · Sold or used · Value or price · Notes
Write-on lines: Total cost · Total value · Difference · Worth doing again?
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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