Cost per acre calculator

Pick your state and crop to start from a published university budget, line by line. Change any number to match your own farm — your numbers replace theirs.

2026 Bell Peppers on Plastic Budget — University of Georgia CAES — Agricultural & Applied Economics, 2026. Open the source.

Line items per acre
Fertilizer$303
Nitrogen, phosphate and potash
Lime and amendments$45
Lime
Seed and transplants$3,455
Plants
Crop protection$1,691
Fumigation
Insecticide
Fungicide
Herbicide
Water and pumping$127
Irrigation
Labor$6,709
Transplanting labor
Field labor
Picking and hauling
Grading and packing
Fuel and machinery$98
Machinery
Other inputs$6,995
Plastic mulch
Plastic removal
Drip tape
Stakes and strings
Scouting
Interest on operating capital
Containers
Marketing
Land and overhead$1,558
Fixed and ownership costs (printed total, not itemized) · fixed
Your totals
Variable cost / acre$19,423
Fixed cost / acre$1,558
Total cost / acre$20,981
Total for 1 acre$20,981
Sales / acre$22,500
Left after costs / acre$1,519
Breakeven price$13.99 per carton

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.

Planning several crops? Use the crop profitability planner. Want profit against your state's real sales figures? Open the profit per acre calculator.

Pooled farmer benchmark: Bell pepper (on plastic) in Georgia

Built from real yield records of Georgia farms that chose to share their data. A figure only appears once 5 or more farms have logged the same crop and season, so no single farm can be identified.

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