BUILDING & EQUIPMENT PLANS

Includes Plans for Beef (Feeding Barns, Corral Layouts, Loading Chutes, etc.); Dairy (Milkrooms, Calf Barns etc.); Feed (Storage, Feeding, Equipment, etc.); Horse (Barns, etc.); Horticulture (Greenhouses, Roadside Stands, etc.); Misc. Structures (Farm: Gates, Rabbit Hutches, Smoke Houses, Dog Houses, etc.); Pole Buildings (Broiler & Layer Houses, etc.); Sheep (Feeders, Sheds, Corrals, Spray Shutes, etc.); Swine (Farrowing Buildings, Gestation & Breeding Buildings, etc.)


DESIGN OF STOCKYARDS, LAIRAGES, CORRALS, RACES, CHUTES AND LOADING RAMP

Multimedia Tutorials & Plans (Text, Images & Animations). VERY VERY EXTENSIVE. Includes: "...Drawings for Cattle Ranches (or Properties) and Slaughter Plant Facilities for Cattle and Pigs; Computer Aided Drawings of Cattle Corral Designs; Non Slip Flooring for Livestock Handling; Directions for laying out Curved Cattle Handling Facilities.

Other Interactive Tutorials include


Behaviour of Cattle, Pigs, Buffalo and Antelope During Handling and Transport

Restraint of Livestock

WIND POWER SYSTEMS CALCULATORS

FARM ENERGY NEEDS/COSTS CALCULATOR

Dairy Equipment, Hog Operation Equipment, Grain Dryer Equipment, Poultry Equipment, Water Pumps, Water Stock Stank Heaters (Hog & Cattle), Outside Lighting.



Wind Power Systems for Farms

WIND FARM AREA CALCULATOR

This calculator estimates land-area requirements for wind power systems.


WIND ENERGY CALCULATORS

SWITCHBANKS SHOWS REDIRECTION SITES FOR WIND CALCULTORS AND THEY INCLUDE.


Wind Energy Economics Calculator

Wind Shade Calculator

Wind Speed Calculator

Wind Turbine Power Calculator

Wind Turbine Shadow Calculator

Sound Map Calculator

WIND PROJECT CALCULATOR

Developed to assist farm owners and operators in evaluating the economics of installing a wind turbine on their farms to provide electricity for the farm and home.

FENCING COST CALCULATOR: WOVEN & BARBED

Enter values in the length calculator if pasture lay-out is reasonably regular. If the fence line is irregular because of boundaries, topography, etc., then enter the value directly under General Inputs..." Includes Materials & Labor Costs.


FENCING COST CALCULATOR: HIGH TENSILE

Enter values in the length calculator if pasture lay-out is reasonably regular. If the fence line is irregular because of boundaries, topography, etc., then enter the value directly under General Inputs..." Includes Materials & Labor Costs.

FARM MACHINERY CALCULATORS

FARM MACHINERY LAND EVALUATION SCIENCE CALCULATOR


FARM MACHINERY SCIENCE CALCULATOR

FARM MACHINERY CALCULATORS

Tool for evaluating the total cost of owning and operating large round and square balers; OwnCombine: Tool for evaluating the economics of owning and operating a combine; KSU-MachCos: Tool for evaluating the total cost of owning and operating machinery by field operation.


FARM MACHINERY COST CALCULATOR

This tool allows you to calculate ownership and operating costs of common farm equipment..." Includes: "...Power and Self-Propelled Equipment (Tractors, Combines, Trucks, Swather (diesel), Sprayers, Bale Wagons, Disk Mower, Forage Harvestor, etc.); Implements (Baling Equipment, Forage Equipment, Seeding Equipment, Spraying Equipment, Tillage Equipment, Grinders/Mixers & Dryers, Rock Pickers & Grain Vacuums, Trailers, etc.)..." Machinery Data includes: "..Purchase Price, Hours Used, Fuel Usage, Fuel Costs, Labor Costs, Repair Costs, Tax Rate, Inflation Rate, Insurance.



FARM MACHINERY DECISION TOOLS

Farm Machinery Calculators/Spreadsheets include: "...Farm Machinery Analyzer; Estimating the Field Capacity of Farm Machines; Matching Tractor Power and Implement Size; Estimating the Number of Field Days Required; Estimating Farm Machinery Costs; Combine Ownership or Custom Hire; Joint Machinery Ownership; Farm Machinery Joint Venture Worksheet.

ONSITE SEWAGE TREATMENT DESIGN

Sewage Treatment Design Spreadsheets include: "...Trench and Seepage Bed Design; Mound Design; Atgrade Design; Pump Selection; Pressure Distribution; Dosing Chamber Sizing without a Timer; Site Evaluation; Percolation Test; Filter and Wetlands; Drip Distribution; Nonlevel Pressure Distribution; Trench Design After Pretreatment; Septage Application.

NRCS WEB SOIL SURVEY

SOIL DATA MART

The Soil Data Mart allows you to: Determine where soil tabular and spatial data is available. Download data for one soil survey area at a time. Generate a variety of reports.



SOIL DATA VIEWER


SOIL CALCULATIONS: WATER CONTENT, DRY DENSITY, POROSITY, DEGREE OF SATURATION



SOIL TEXTURE TRIANGLE BULK DENSITY CALCULATOR: CANADIAN SYSTEM & U.S. SYSTEM

Soil physical properties (texture, structure and organic matter) control the total pore space and pore size distribution in soil.

Soil Texture Triangle Calculator "...estimates soil water tension, conductivity and water holding capability based on the soil texture, organic matter, gravel content, and salinity.

SOIL TEST INTERPRETATION AND FERTILISER DECISION SUPPORT

Provides fertiliser rates to meet the crop nutrient needs based on soil test results. It also calculates the value and application rates of animal manure as a nutrient source for specific field conditions.


SPATIAL NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT PLANNER (SNMP) - Center for Agricultural

.The Spatial Nutrient Management Planner (SNMP) is a decision support tool that facilitates the collection, analysis and presentation of spatial information related to nutrient management planning..." "...available for the lower 48 contiguous U.S. States..." USE SNMP to: "...(1) delineate farm and field boundaries and local features such as location of streams; (2) automatically create soil test maps of the farm and generate fertilizer recommendations for selected crops; (3) determine manure distribution networks for the operation.

Water Erosion Prediction Calculators that predict soil erosion include


Basic Hillslope Profile ("...Run a single landuse, single soil WEPP hillslope simulation...")

Hillslope with Filter Strip at Bottom

Cropping ("...Use alternating crops down a hillslope...")

Worksheet ("...Run multiple simulations to see effects of landuse changes...")

WIND EROSION EQUATION

The WEQ management period method spreadsheet can be in states that use the management period method to estimate wind erosion.



SOIL PHYSICS TEACHING TOOLS

Some examples from over "15" Soil Physics Applets include


Steady-state water flow in homogeneous media ("...solve the Darcy and Buckingham-Darcy equations for steady-state water movement in soils and to display the predictions of these models in graphical form...")

Water Balance Estimates ("...enables the user to specify the capacity of the root zone of a soil to store water, the amount of water in the root zone at a particular date,...")

Soil Temperature Variations With Time and Depth

Diffusion of solute in soil media

Mixing in an aquifer ("...Chemicals leaching through soils to groundwater mix with water already present there. The change in concentration of the chemical depends upon the concentration...")

PESTICIDE POLLULANT TRANSPORT

pH CALCULATOR

Will calculate the pH of a solution of known concentration..." Can calculate pH either by Concentration Method, Weight Method or Volume Method.



pH CALCULATOR - Thermidaire Corporation Canada Limited

pH Calculator "...will calculate the pH of a solution of known concentration.


pH CALCULATOR

pH Calculator allows you enter either the "pH" or enter "concentration of hydrogen ions (H⁺)".



pH PLAYGROUND: UNDERSTANDING pH

The pH is the negative logarithm of the [H⁺] measured in moles per liter. A pH of 7.4 is equivalent to 40 nanoMols/liter [H⁺] (hydrogen ion concentration).

ALKALINITY CALCULATOR

.The Alkalinity Calculator will analyse the titration curve and calculate the alkalinity or acid neutralizing capacity (ANC) of your sample using one or more of several different methods, including: Inflection point method; Fixed endpoint method; Theoretical carbonate titration curve method 1 & 2; Gran function plot method; Calculation of alkalinity, hydroxide, carbonate, and bicarbonate.



ALKALINITY CALCULATOR

Allows growers to calculate the amount of acid to inject to neutralise alkalinty in irrigation water. Users can select either an endpoint pH or endpoint alkalinity concentration.

AGRICULTURE DRAINAGE CALCULATORS

Calculate acres drained with known pipe size..." & "...Calculate pipesize with known acres to be drained.


BTC DRAINAGE CALCULATORS

Calculate pipe flow and recommended size.



DRAINAGE CALCULATORS

Calculators are based on corrugated polyethylene pipe. Calculations for concrete and clay pipe can be approximated..." Includes: "...Pipe Diameter Calculator; Area Drained Calculator; Flowrate Calculator & Prinsco Drainage Calculators.

FARM DRAINAGE CALCULATORS

Calculate by Acreage - Calculate by Pipe Sizes.

EROSION CALCULATOR (SEDIMENT 1)

This calculator determines erosion or detached sediment for a single storm.


EROSION CALCULATOR: CALCULATIONS OF IOWA SOIL LOSS AND RESIDUE COVER (CORN & SOYBEAN

Calculator includes: "...Crop; Fall Tillage 1 & 2 (using Chisel-subsoiler; Disk-subsoiler; Chisel plows with Sweeps, Spike points etc.; Disk chisel plow with Sweeps etc.; Disk harrows; Field Cultivators; Finishing Tools; etc.); Spring Tillage 1 & 2 (Ditto Fall Tillage); and Planting (using Conventional planters; Drills with Hoe opener drills, Single Disk opener drills, ets.); Rotary hoes, etc..." Calculates "...Crop Residue with results showing the Relationship between Residue Cover and Water Erosion and the Relationship between Residue Cover and Wind Erosion.

WEPP MODEL: WATER EROSION PREDICTION PROJECT

A computer simulation that predicts soil erosion.

Water Erosion Prediction Calculators that predict soil erosion include


Hillslope Profile ("...Run a single landuse, single soil WEPP hillslope simulation...")

Hillslope with Filter Strip at Bottom ("...Add a different landuse area at the bottom of a hillslope...")

Strip Cropping ("...Use alternating crops down a hillslope...")

Worksheet ("...Run multiple simulations to see effects of landuse changes...")

CALCULATE ET WITH PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION


CALCULATING WATER USE BY TURF -pET CALCULATOR


CALCULATOR FOR WATER USE BY GRASS - Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center,

The calculator is based on the Penman equation, a formula in wide use by agricultural scientists around the world. The calculator estimates daily pET in inches of water. It requires average daily values of four measurements: sunlight, wind, temperature, and humidity.