Vegetable cost per acre in Georgia
8 published University of Georgia CAES — Agricultural & Applied Economics budgets for Georgia. Every number below is copied from the university's own document — open the source to check it.
2026 Bell Peppers on Plastic Budget · University of Georgia CAES — Agricultural & Applied Economics
- Fertilizer$303
- Lime and amendments$45
- Seed and transplants$3,455
- Crop protection$1,691
- Water and pumping$127
- Labor$6,709
- Fuel and machinery$98
- Other inputs$6,995
- Fixed and land$1,558
Engineering/planning budget built from grower and industry-expert panels, dealer input quotes and university machinery cost coefficients. Not a random-sample farm survey. Open the source.
2026 Sweet Corn — Irrigated Budget · University of Georgia CAES — Agricultural & Applied Economics
- Fertilizer$336
- Lime and amendments$23
- Seed and transplants$297
- Crop protection$1,350
- Water and pumping$84
- Labor$906
- Fuel and machinery$427
- Other inputs$1,827
- Fixed and land$655
Engineering/planning budget built from grower and industry-expert panels, dealer input quotes and university machinery cost coefficients. Not a random-sample farm survey. Open the source.
2025 Squash on Bareground Budget · University of Georgia CAES — Agricultural & Applied Economics
In today's prices: about $4,039–$4,233 per acre.
- Fertilizer$195
- Lime and amendments$45
- Seed and transplants$312
- Crop protection$717
- Water and pumping$63
- Labor$1,508
- Fuel and machinery$121
- Other inputs$459
- Fixed and land$620
Engineering/planning budget built from grower and industry-expert panels, dealer input quotes and university machinery cost coefficients. Not a random-sample farm survey. Open the source.
2026 Spring Cucumber on Plastic Budget · University of Georgia CAES — Agricultural & Applied Economics
- Fertilizer$264
- Lime and amendments$45
- Seed and transplants$496
- Crop protection$1,021
- Water and pumping$40
- Labor$145
- Fuel and machinery$83
- Other inputs$4,110
- Fixed and land$637
Engineering/planning budget built from grower and industry-expert panels, dealer input quotes and university machinery cost coefficients. Not a random-sample farm survey. Open the source.
2026 Spring Snap Beans Budget · University of Georgia CAES — Agricultural & Applied Economics
- Fertilizer$189
- Lime and amendments$45
- Seed and transplants$368
- Crop protection$567
- Water and pumping$100
- Labor$174
- Fuel and machinery$98
- Other inputs$1,670
- Fixed and land$666
Engineering/planning budget built from grower and industry-expert panels, dealer input quotes and university machinery cost coefficients. Not a random-sample farm survey. Open the source.
2022 Broccoli Budget · University of Georgia CAES — Agricultural & Applied Economics
In today's prices: about $3,797–$4,049 per acre.
- Fertilizer$160
- Lime and amendments$35
- Seed and transplants$600
- Crop protection$561
- Water and pumping$102
- Labor$477
- Fuel and machinery$79
- Other inputs$731
- Fixed and land$744
2022 vintage — the newest broccoli budget UGA publishes. Input prices have moved since.
Engineering/planning budget built from grower and industry-expert panels, dealer input quotes and university machinery cost coefficients. Not a random-sample farm survey. Open the source.
2026 Watermelon Budget · University of Georgia CAES — Agricultural & Applied Economics
- Fertilizer$257
- Lime and amendments$45
- Seed and transplants$762
- Crop protection$802
- Water and pumping$360
- Labor$289
- Fuel and machinery$89
- Other inputs$647
Only the pre-harvest section of this workbook is transcribed ($3,251.31/ac). Harvest and marketing lines are in the source file but are not reproduced here, so the total understates full-season cost.
Engineering/planning budget built from grower and industry-expert panels, dealer input quotes and university machinery cost coefficients. Not a random-sample farm survey. Open the source.
2026 Strawberry Budget · University of Georgia CAES — Agricultural & Applied Economics
- Fertilizer$761
- Lime and amendments$45
- Seed and transplants$5,040
- Crop protection$2,058
- Water and pumping$255
- Labor$695
- Fuel and machinery$98
- Other inputs$18,055
- Fixed and land$2,495
Pre-harvest lines are transcribed in full ($9,905.19/ac). Harvest and marketing are carried as a single residual to the published $27,005.19 total rather than itemized.
Engineering/planning budget built from grower and industry-expert panels, dealer input quotes and university machinery cost coefficients. Not a random-sample farm survey. Open the source.
$7,228 per acre
Crops counted: Bell Peppers, Cabbage, Cantaloupes, Cucumbers, Onion, Snap Beans, Squash, Sweet Corn. This is sales, not cost — compare it with the budgets above.
Source: USDA NASS Vegetables 2024 Summary (released February 2025), state tables vege_all_tables.csv.
| Crop | Acres | Yield (lb/acre) | Price ($/lb) | Sales ($/acre) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bell Peppers | 3,600 | 26,000 | $0.55 | $14,378 |
| Cabbage | 4,200 | 38,000 | $0.19 | $7,144 |
| Cantaloupes | 1,800 | 28,000 | $0.27 | $7,560 |
| Cucumbers | 5,700 | 16,000 | $0.26 | $4,160 |
| Onion | 11,700 | 22,500 | $0.61 | $13,680 |
| Snap Beans | 7,500 | 3,900 | $0.53 | $2,051 |
| Squash | 3,600 | 14,000 | $0.47 | $6,524 |
| Sweet Corn | 23,700 | 11,000 | $0.50 | $5,500 |
Source: USDA NASS Vegetables 2024 Summary, state-by-crop tables (area harvested, yield per acre, price per cwt), 2024. Fresh-market and processing sales combined, as USDA reports them; prices are what growers received.
University budgets are planning budgets: extension economists price a typical acre from grower panels and dealer quotes. They are not surveys of what farms actually spent. Your own invoices are always better.
Older budgets also show a range in today's prices, using the USDA index of prices farmers pay for supplies (2025 average to August 2026). That index leaves out farm wages, so each budget's labor lines are brought up separately using USDA's farm wage rates (newest annual figure: 2025).
We never fill a gap with another state's budget. If Georgia has no budget for a crop, the tools show none.
Every figure is transcribed from a published land-grant enterprise budget for that state. These are planning budgets built from grower panels and dealer quotes, not surveys of what farms actually spent — your invoices override them everywhere they exist.
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