Often when Landseekers (and Landholders too) are planning how to set up a beef and/or sheep enterprise, it can be hard to know where to start and what to include.
We’ve set up this template, which contains the key elements that a Landholder would typically like to understand well in order to consider a proposal with a well-informed foundation.
What this resource is
It is a proposal template, in the form of a Google spreadsheet.
We have used different versions of similar proposal templates in our Land Matching processes. It serves as a guiding resource as to what to typically include in a concrete proposal, when arriving at the proposal stage in an Abunda Land Matching process.
How to use this resource
Use this resource as a way to play around with the details of your intended farm enterprise operation/system, and automatically get some useful numbers and totals out on the farm economics.
Note that the template is set up to represent an ANNUAL Profit & Loss calculation, based on a “Steady state”, as in when you have established your farming system. Usually this would equate to year 2 or 3.
Getting the Template:
Go to the link below (Google Sheets template) and follow the instructions.
- You can access the template as “view only”.
- In order to edit, you will need to “Make a copy” or “Download” the file under the menu item “File”.
Open Licence
This resource is licenced to be openly available via Creative Commons. Specifically, we are using the Attribute-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.
This means that you can freely:
- Use it however you please, also commercially
- Edit or remix your own version
- Share it to anyone
- Contribute to the resource and be listed as contributor
But always remember:
- No one can change the credits of who originated or contributed to a resource
- You cannot share it as “proprietary”, only with the same open licence
- Essentially, no one can ever fully “own” this resource. It needs to be freely available always.
How to contribute
Have you learned something, that others could benefit from?
Do you have suggestions for upgrades or already made some improvements?
Please share them back to us, and we will list you as a Contributor.
Please email us on hello@abunda.farm