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.

2022 Broccoli Budget — University of Georgia CAES — Agricultural & Applied Economics, 2022. Open the source. 2022 vintage — the newest broccoli budget UGA publishes. Input prices have moved since. In today's prices this budget would run about $3,797–$4,049/acre (USDA farm-input price index, 2025 average to August 2026; farm wages brought up separately with USDA's farm wage rates).

Line items per acre
Fertilizer$160
Base fertilizer
Sidedress fertilizer
Lime and amendments$35
Lime
Seed and transplants$600
Plants
Crop protection$561
Fungicide
Herbicide
Insecticide
Water and pumping$102
Irrigation
Labor$477
Field labor
Harvest, hauling and packing
Fuel and machinery$79
Machinery
Other inputs$731
Interest on operating capital
Ice and cooling
Containers
Broker fees
Land and overhead$744
Fixed and ownership costs (printed total, not itemized) · fixed
Your totals
Variable cost / acre$2,745
Fixed cost / acre$744
Total cost / acre$3,489
Total for 1 acre$3,489
Sales / acre$4,800
Left after costs / acre$1,311
Breakeven price$8.72 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: Broccoli 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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