Vegetable cost per acre in Pennsylvania

In today's prices: about $22,245–$23,957 per acre.

• Other inputs$9,951
• Fixed and land$437

Publication last updated September 2006, so costs are well below today's. Fixed cost is the printed $10,387.70 total minus printed variable costs.

Penn State sample enterprise budget using custom hire for most field work. A planning budget, not a farm survey. Open the source.

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$3,131 per acre

Crops counted: Pumpkins, Snap Beans. 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 Pennsylvania 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.