Vegetable cost per acre in Missouri

In today's prices: about $3,525–$3,704 per acre.

• Fertilizer$171
• Seed and transplants$157
• Crop protection$229
• Water and pumping$50
• Labor$1,206
• Fuel and machinery$85
• Other inputs$1,170
• Overhead$118
• Fixed and land$353

Printed total $3,525.41/acre. The printed lines add to about $13 more than the printed operating total; the budget notes totals may not sum due to rounding.

MU Extension and FAPRI planning budget using January 2025 price forecasts for one irrigated acre. A planning budget, not a farm survey. Open the source.

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$5,084 per acre

All vegetables, melons and potatoes sold in the state, divided by the acres harvested for sale, 2022. This is sales, not cost — compare it with the budgets above.

Source: USDA 2022 Census of Agriculture, Table 1 state highlights (vegetables, melons, potatoes and sweet potatoes: value of sales / acres harvested for sale, 2022).

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 Missouri 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.