Working with Dates
Farming is a lot about doing things on the right date, and working out
what date that should be. This simple exercise will show you how to
calculate with dates; I hope you will soon be able to apply what you
learn in this exercise to real situations on the farm. One dairy farmer
I worked with on this exercise very quickly adapted it for herd
management, with service dates, drying off dates, calving dates,
vaccination dates, etc.
all following on from each other, just like a breeding board.
To download the instructions, click any of the following links. You
are welcome to use these resources for your own use or for teaching.
Feel free to adapt and update them.
Click here
to view an example of a Working with Dates spreadsheet using
Excel.
You need Adobe Acrobat Reader for the PDF files and
WinZip for the zipped files.
