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Miscellaneous publication 29/2005
May 2005
By Troy Sinclair and Francis Bright
The Pastoral Stock Water Workbook has been developed to assist you to estimate the costs of maintaining stock water and make informed decisions about managing existing and proposed water points.
The first half of the Workbook provides background information on stock water points, their usage, advantages and disadvantages. Whilst the second part contains a series of step-by-step exercises that should be completed as you progress through the Workbook.
The economic calculations on stock water are stored as electronic spreadsheet files on the disc included in the Workbook folder. These calculations are easy to complete if you have access to a computer with Microsoft Excel, and some basic experience in its operation. The advantage of using the spreadsheet program is that you can quickly trial different figures to see how they affect the bottom line, without needing to manually calculate the data each time.
Alternately, the Workbook can be read from cover to cover as a source of general information. However, unless the exercises are completed, the Workbook may not achieve its goal of assisting you to make decisions that could increase your profitability.
- Pastoral stock water workbook [697 kb PDF file]
- Stock water exercise 1 to 4 [xls spreadsheet]
- Stock water exercises 5 to 7 [xls spreadsheet]
- Stock water exercise 16 to 18 [xls spreadsheet]
- Stock water exercise 19 [xls spreadsheet]
- Stock water exercise 20 [xls spreadsheet]
Page updated August 2005