University budget sources

Every cost figure on this site comes from a budget published by a state university extension program. Below is each budget we use — 44 budgets from 16 states, covering 1996 to 2026 — with its crop, year, printed total cost per acre and a link to the original document. Open the source and check the numbers yourself; if a figure here doesn't match the university's document, the university is right and we want to know.

Older budgets are labeled with their year and shown with a today's-price range on the cost range calculator. Budgets are planning estimates, not what any farm actually spent.

North Carolina — NC State Extension — Agricultural & Resource Economics

Georgia — University of Georgia CAES — Agricultural & Applied Economics

Florida — UF/IFAS — Food & Resource Economics

Kentucky — University of Kentucky — Center for Crop Diversification

Pennsylvania — Penn State Extension

New York — Cornell University — Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

Ohio — Ohio State University Extension — Farm Office

Delaware — University of Delaware Cooperative Extension

Michigan — Michigan State University Extension

Missouri — University of Missouri Extension

Colorado — Colorado State University Extension — Agriculture & Business Management

New Jersey — Rutgers Cooperative Extension — Farm Management

Maryland — University of Maryland Extension

Texas — Texas A&M AgriLife Extension — Agricultural Economics

Oklahoma — Oklahoma State University Extension — Agricultural Economics

Tennessee — University of Tennessee Extension — Agricultural & Resource Economics

States not listed here have no university vegetable budget we could find and verify. Their cost pages say so plainly rather than borrowing another state's numbers.