Abstract

A computerized, menu-driven spreadsheet program was developed to assist nursery producers and other nursery professionals with generating customized nursery budgets for field-grown nursery stock and Christmas trees. The compiled spreadsheet is a “stand alone” program with its financial models based on enterprise budgets taken from extension publications. The program enables the user to estimate production cost and potential profit of an existing or prospective crop. Advantages of the program include the user modifying existing data bases rather than entering all relevant information. Users of the program can also evaluate risk parameters of a decision through the “what-if” capabilities of the spreadsheet