What is WinMax?

Program history

WinMax is a computer program developed at Purdue University to calculate and compare economic returns on crop production.

From 1991-1998, WinMax and its earlier DOS version were used to manage data for the national Farming for Maximum Efficiency program (The MAX®) sponsored by the Conservation Technology Information Center and Successful Farming magazine.

WinMax manages crop input data, calculates crop fertilizer recommendations, generates production cost and nutrient management worksheets, and allows sets of custom input costs to be created and used in all calculations.

Various management options, such as tillage, pest control and fertilizer strategies, can be compared to help assess which practices are both economically efficient and environmentally sound.

What can I do with WinMax?

You can use WinMax to do day-to-day crop recordkeeping and end-of-season analysis. After you've entered your own crop production data, WinMax can calculate crop fertilizer recommendations and generate a production cost worksheet and nutrient management analysis for each crop field.
You can use WinMax to enter and manage field data from multiple farm operations for no-till incentive programs and MAX-type programs.
You can import data from a manure management plan created with Manure Management Planner (MMP) and use WinMax to record data about actual fertilizer and manure applications. You can also export WinMax data to an MMP plan.

What do I need to run WinMax?

You can download WinMax for use on your own computer. Your computer will need to be running Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP. A printer is recommended but not required.

Last updated: Nov. 23, 2011