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5 Proven Smart Spreadsheet Automation Benefits to Any Business [Hint: Comparing a Manual Excel based Feed Formulation Spreadsheet with an Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator Spreadsheet Application]

February 8, 2017

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Various farm support experts already offer different Excel based feed formulation tools for farmers. Some itemize steps users can follow, to manually create formulas in MS Excel worksheets, to build simple feed formulation tables. When the user gets it right, […]

Entrepreneurship

PII 052: Real Life Farm Business Case Study - Excel-VB Ration Formulator Spreadsheet Software Anatomy

February 6, 2017

In this week's issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I discuss - using annotated screenshot images - design considerations employed in developing my popular Excel-VB Ration Formulator spreadsheet software. Prospective buyers, as well as users/owners of this app curious to better understand how it works, and how to make more productive use of […]

Entrepreneurship

The FARM CEO (Issue 72) : One New Skill Modern Extension Professionals Need to Succeed, The Need to Explore Cheaper Local Alternative Feed Ingredients In Formulating Least Cost Diets, Two (2) Feed Formulation Compounding Problems Farm CEOs Need Extension Specialists to Help Them Solve

February 5, 2017

In this week's issue of the Farm CEO newspaper, I feature 3 articles discussing possible ways Extension solutions can evolve to better meet the needs of farm businesses. Especially in the area of data recording, analysis and report generation automation, towards achieving timely and cost-saving decision making. 1. Two (2) Feed Formulation Compounding Problems Farm CEOs […]

Career Development

[Recommended] 16 Essential Terms You Must Know To Learn VBA Programming

February 5, 2017

This week I refer members of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club to an excellent article (by By Jorge A. Gomez) that discusses key VBA programming terms that one needs to understand, in order to succeed in developing useful VBA applications. Like I continue to emphasize to my club members, I believe in exposing […]

Entrepreneurship

Two (2) Feed Formulation Compounding Problems Farm CEOs Need Extension Specialists to Help Them Solve

February 4, 2017

In this article, I discuss two major challenges that many farm CEOs face that tend to limit their ability to deliver a consistent quality of balanced feed to their livestock – especially in Nigeria/Africa. 1. Poor Feed Compounding Know-How Apart from knowing the ingredients' nutrient compositions in order to formulate rations, there is also the […]

Excel-VB Solutions

[Recommended] Why Nigerians Hate Igbo - by Chinua Achebe

February 4, 2017

When I saw the thought provoking Facebook post/query (shown below) by Joe Ibekwe, I instantly recalled the words of Chinua Achebe in the last book he gifted us before passing on. However, a quick check in my travel bag soon revealed, to my dismay, that I'd left my well read Copy of Achebe's "There Was a […]

Career Development

One New Skill Modern Extension Professionals Need to Succeed

February 1, 2017

Findings from a 2013 questionnaire survey I conducted of Farm CEOs in Nigeria, for an international agribusiness paper I was engaged to write revealed 55.6% bought commercial feed (from "2 sources" or "anywhere they can find"). 66.7% of that percentage said their animals' performances varied noticeably with different sources of feed. Their farm output tended […]

Excel-VB Solutions

The Need to Explore Cheaper Local Alternative Feed Ingredients In Formulating Least Cost Diets

January 31, 2017

Rising prices of major feed ingredients like Maize, Fish Meal and Soya beans plus dangers associated with aflatoxin complications in use of groundnut cake, have driven many farm business owners to explore alternative feed ingredients. But in doing so, they also have to enter uncharted territory. Locally available ingredients which are often cheaper, typically tend […]

Career Development

PII 051: One State of Mind You Need to Defeat Adversity

January 30, 2017

In last week's issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I talked about how you need to share your vision with others. How you need to infect other people with your enthusiasm and insights. Now, in this issue I'm going to talk about poverty. I'm sure many who read the above will wonder what […]

Career Development

Video Part 2: [Excel Heaven Tutorial 07] Macro Protect or Unprotect Worksheets in a Workbook

January 29, 2017

Today, I emailed the second and concluding part of the screenshot video tutorial titled "[Excel Heaven Tutorial 07] Macro Protect or Unprotect Worksheets in a Workbook" - announced on this blog 2 weeks ago - to members of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club. Click here to request a copy of the video tutorial - […]