CAUV

Projections for Ohio's Current Agricultural Use Value (CAUV) Program

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The Ohio State University Extension Budget Items

The intent behind the current methodology for ODT’s calculation of non-land costs in the CAUV formula is to account for any costs related to the operation of farmland that is not related to purchasing the land itself or the landowner’s time. Effectively this means that from the budget reports for each crop, the ODT will omit the land cost and management cost from the extension office budgets and construct the costs based on a 7 year Olympic average for each component.

There are a total of 137 different items for the corn, soybeans, and wheat costs. They have been grouped into 4 different categories (finances, fixed costs, production, and variable cost). There are also 20 different items which fit under each of the various categories. And there are then different levels for each item, the levels refer to either the production level (low, medium, or high) or the cost of an item.

Budget excel files are organized where they have a low, medium, and high yield value for each crop and are generally the furthest right columns for each data item. There are subtle changes form year to year in terms of where the items are ordered as well as what the category stands for. Because of this, it is near impossible to automate the process of maintaining historical values for the budget cost.

The osu_budgets - R.csv file is how I have organized historical budget data for corn, soybeans, and wheat. The variables in my formatted:

And lastly, here are the category-item combinations and descriptions (useful for inputting new values from OSU budgets):