Vegetable cost per acre in New York
1 published Cornell University — Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management budget for New York. Every number below is copied from the university's own document — open the source to check it.
Eastern Broccoli Production Enterprise Budgets (EB 2020-12) — Western New York, 2020 · Cornell University — Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
In today's prices: about $8,097–$8,720 per acre.
- Other inputs$4,685
- Fixed and land$1,099
Western New York. Fixed cost here is the printed $627 fixed plus $472 overhead (printed total $5,784). Price not shown here.
Cornell Dyson School enterprise budget (Davis and Gómez) for a 35-planted-acre Western New York farm. A planning budget, not a farm survey. Open the source.
$4,118 per acre
Crops counted: Beets, Cabbage, Green Peas, Onion, Pumpkins, Snap Beans, Squash, Sweet Corn. This is sales, not cost — compare it with the budgets above.
Source: USDA NASS Vegetables 2024 Summary (released February 2025), state tables vege_all_tables.csv.
| Crop | Acres | Yield (lb/acre) | Price ($/lb) | Sales ($/acre) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beets | 2,800 | 33,500 | $0.10 | $3,417 |
| Cabbage | 6,200 | 48,000 | $0.21 | $10,176 |
| Green Peas | 7,600 | 4,740 | $0.15 | $692 |
| Onion | 6,800 | 39,000 | $0.35 | $13,533 |
| Pumpkins | 4,000 | 11,500 | $0.26 | $3,013 |
| Snap Beans | 14,400 | 8,300 | $0.38 | $3,187 |
| Squash | 3,800 | 21,000 | $0.17 | $3,675 |
| Sweet Corn | 20,500 | 13,500 | $0.11 | $1,539 |
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 New York 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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