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 Spring Snap Beans Budget — University of Georgia CAES — Agricultural & Applied Economics, 2026. Open the source.

Line items per acre
Fertilizer$189
Nitrogen, phosphate and potash
Lime and amendments$45
Lime
Seed and transplants$368
Seed
Crop protection$567
Insecticide
Fungicide
Herbicide
Water and pumping$100
Irrigation
Labor$174
Field labor
Fuel and machinery$98
Machinery
Other inputs$1,670
Interest on operating capital
Containers
Marketing (7%)
Other budget lines not itemized here (reconciles to the published total)
Land and overhead$666
Fixed and ownership costs (printed total, not itemized) · fixed
Your totals
Variable cost / acre$3,210
Fixed cost / acre$666
Total cost / acre$3,876
Total for 1 acre$3,876
Sales / acre$4,635
Left after costs / acre$759
Breakeven price$21.53 per bushel

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.

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Pooled farmer benchmark: Snap bean 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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