Vegetable cost per acre in Oklahoma

In today's prices: about $5,611–$5,877 per acre.

• Fertilizer$61
• Seed and transplants$595
• Crop protection$135
• Water and pumping$39
• Labor$2,102
• Fuel and machinery$85
• Other inputs$1,684
• Overhead$18
• Fixed and land$558

Printed total cost $5,276.42/acre ($4,718.03 operating, $558.39 fixed). Sales are 30,000 lb of seedless at $0.16 plus 15,000 lb of the seeded pollinizer at $0.11 ($6,450 total); the price shown is the blended $0.143/lb. Land cost is entered as $0, so add rent if you lease. OSU's own breakeven above total costs is $0.121/lb on the seedless yield alone.

Oklahoma State University Agricultural Economics sample enterprise budget (February 2024) for 40 irrigated acres in Caddo County, south-central Oklahoma, owner-operated with owned equipment. Marked "sample only" by OSU; growers are meant to enter their own figures. Open the source.

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$4,674 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 Oklahoma 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.