It feels just like yesterday, that I hosted the Maiden Edition of my FREE Monthly Workshop for members of my MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club on Sat 19th March 2016 in Lagos-Nigeria. Since then I have diligently churned out weekly Videos, Workbooks and Articles on various aspects of basic Excel-VB programming with a focus on […]
The video screenshot below (click here to watch it) is of an Excel-VB spreadsheet software (called Poultry Farm Manager™) that I built – in 2014 – for a large poultry layer farm in Ekiti state, Southwest Nigeria, owned by a Nigerian diplomat, who was then based in a Francophone West African nation. In 2009, I […]
This article features – and discusses (with charts) – responses to questions in an agribusiness research survey questionnaire I circulated a few years ago. The semi-structured questionnaire was used to solicit responses from farm owners, feed makers and extension experts. Some were buyers/users of my Excel-VB Ration Formulator™. CEOs of smallholder (fish, pig, and poultry) farm […]
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, this works okay. But such solutions can sometimes be like asking users to work in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 reveled to my dismay, that I’d left my well read Copy of Achebe’s “There Was a […]
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 […]
