Greenhouse cost calculator

What a greenhouse crop actually costs per house

Pick your state and crop. The numbers come from published university greenhouse budgets — per house, per crop cycle — and you set the price you expect to receive. Where a state publishes no greenhouse budget, we say so instead of borrowing a neighbor's figures.

Tomato (indeterminate, heated) — Heated greenhouse, 30×96 ft

University of Kentucky CCD greenhouse tomato budget. UK's Center for Crop Diversification publishes greenhouse tomato budgets for a single bay. Figures here are the order-of-magnitude planning ranges from that publication; pull the current PDF before budgeting a real house. About 1 crop cycle per year in this structure.

Plants and growing media$900
Fertilizer and injectors$700
Heat (propane/natural gas)$3,200
Electricity (fans, vents, pumps)$600
Pollination (bumblebee hives)$450
Pest and disease control$350
Packaging and marketing$1,100
Labor (seeding through harvest)$5,200
Repairs, supplies, interest$900
Total cost per house per cycle$13,400
Cost per pound
$2.44
Revenue per house
$13,750
Profit per house per cycle
$350

Greenhouse budgets are published per house, not per acre — heat and labor dominate, and both are local. Pair this with the field cost-per-acre calculator and the breakeven price tool. Growing under cover? Flag the crop window in your grower portal and log readings there.