Vegetable cost per acre in Ohio

In today's prices: about $1,282–$1,381 per acre.

• Other inputs$377
• Fixed and land$392

2008 budget. Variable costs leave out the operator's own labor and management, so true cost is higher. Printed total $768.50.

Ohio State Extension enterprise budget, 1,300 dozen/acre column, for a 1,500-acre farm with 5 acres of sweet corn. A planning budget, not a farm survey. Open the source.

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$3,638 per acre

Crops counted: Pumpkins. 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.

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 Ohio 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.