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 Watermelon Budget — University of Georgia CAES — Agricultural & Applied Economics, 2026. Open the source. Only the pre-harvest section of this workbook is transcribed ($3,251.31/ac). Harvest and marketing lines are in the source file but are not reproduced here, so the total understates full-season cost.
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: Watermelon 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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