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 Sweet Corn — Irrigated Budget — University of Georgia CAES — Agricultural & Applied Economics, 2026. Open the source.

Line items per acre
Fertilizer$336
Nitrogen, phosphate and potash
Lime and amendments$23
Lime
Seed and transplants$297
Seed
Crop protection$1,350
Fungicide
Soil insecticide
Insecticide through irrigation
Insecticide
Aerial application
Herbicide
Water and pumping$84
Irrigation (electric)
Labor$906
Pre-harvest labor
Harvest labor
Fuel and machinery$427
Fuel, oil, lube and machinery
Repairs and maintenance
Other inputs$1,827
Scouting
Crop insurance
Interest on operating capital
Pre-cooling
Containers
Packaging
Marketing (10%)
Land and overhead$655
Fixed and ownership costs (printed total, not itemized) · fixed
Your totals
Variable cost / acre$5,249
Fixed cost / acre$655
Total cost / acre$5,905
Total for 1 acre$5,905
Sales / acre$6,075
Left after costs / acre$170
Breakeven price$13.12 per crate

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: Sweet corn (irrigated) 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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