Vegetable cost per acre in Michigan
1 published Michigan State University Extension budget for Michigan. Every number below is copied from the university's own document — open the source to check it.
Michigan Cabbage Cost of Production 2024 (Bulletin E-3532), fresh market · Michigan State University Extension
In today's prices: about $8,262–$8,754 per acre.
- Seed and transplants$613
- Labor$1,820
- Other inputs$4,437
- Fixed and land$823
Printed total $7,692/acre at 700 boxes, including harvest, boxes, cooling and a $200 management allowance; overhead (irrigation, land, insurance and other fixed costs) is $823/acre. The study itemizes pre-harvest work by task; here the pre-harvest costs other than transplants are one combined line.
MSU Extension cost-of-production study (Aug 2025) built from individual grower interviews and a southeast Michigan focus group, cross-checked with NASS yields and prices. Machinery is priced at custom rates. Open the source.
$3,114 per acre
Crops counted: Asparagus, Bell Peppers, Cabbage, Cucumbers, Pumpkins, Snap Beans, Squash. This is sales, not cost — compare it with the budgets above.
Source: USDA NASS Vegetables 2024 Summary (released February 2025), state tables vege_all_tables.csv.
| Crop | Acres | Yield (lb/acre) | Price ($/lb) | Sales ($/acre) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asparagus | 7,500 | 3,600 | $0.91 | $3,272 |
| Bell Peppers | 1,800 | 29,000 | $0.52 | $15,080 |
| Cabbage | 3,800 | 52,000 | $0.17 | $8,788 |
| Cucumbers | 33,900 | 12,500 | $0.13 | $1,588 |
| Pumpkins | 5,100 | 20,500 | $0.16 | $3,321 |
| Snap Beans | 7,400 | 10,500 | $0.24 | $2,572 |
| Squash | 7,300 | 20,000 | $0.23 | $4,600 |
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 Michigan 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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