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 Strawberry Budget — University of Georgia CAES — Agricultural & Applied Economics, 2026. Open the source. Pre-harvest lines are transcribed in full ($9,905.19/ac). Harvest and marketing are carried as a single residual to the published $27,005.19 total rather than itemized.

Line items per acre
Fertilizer$761
Liquid and granular fertilizer
Lime and amendments$45
Lime
Seed and transplants$5,040
Plants
Crop protection$2,058
Fumigant
Herbicide
Insecticide
Fungicide
Water and pumping$255
Irrigation and freeze protection
Labor$695
Field labor
Fuel and machinery$98
Machinery
Other inputs$18,055
Plastic mulch
Plastic removal
Interest on operating capital
Other budget lines not itemized here (reconciles to the published total)
Land and overhead$2,495
Fixed and ownership costs (printed total, not itemized) · fixed
Your totals
Variable cost / acre$27,005
Fixed cost / acre$2,495
Total cost / acre$29,500
Total for 1 acre$29,500
Sales / acreEnter a price
Left after costs / acre—
Breakeven price$1.64 per lb

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: Strawberry (plasticulture) 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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