Cost and Returns Estimation

Updated 11/04/2009

    Regional Agricultural Economic Information Sources

Other Agricultural Cost and Returns Information:

• Click here and type "SUBSCRIBE Budgets" in the body of the e-mail to get on the Extension BUDGETS listserver.   This listserver is used for general crop and livestock BUDGETS discussions.
• AAEA Commodity Costs and Returns Estimation Handbook in pdf and WordPerfect formats
  (allowed with permission from the Arne Hallam and the AAEA Statistics and Information Resources Committee.)
• Budgets contains links to We also included links to as many University and Extension crop and livestock budget sites as possible as well as CARE databases for each of 63 Production Regions of the US (the same regions used in the Agricultural Sector Model) including conventional, minimal till, and no till budgets for each major crop. Just click on your state to bring up the known budgets for that state. If you have any budgets to contribute or link to, please e-mail David Buland.
• CARE budget Program, and fdatools.exe, NEW CCE Installation Package for the NRCS Flood Control Programs URB1 and ECON2, and the NRCS Crop Budget Program CARE
• Part 613 NRCS National Resource Economics Handbook, Payment Schedules (PDF, 286 KB)
• The USDA Economic Research Service maintains a national Commodity Costs and Returns including estimated annual production costs and returns and published accounts for major field crop and livestock enterprises since 1975.
• The National Ag Risk Educational Library maintains a listing of State Budgets at http://www.agrisk.umn.edu/budgets/.  The Southern Extension Farm Management Committee has developed a searchable database to catalog enterprise budgets and software which you can search by state, enterprise, farm size, tillage system, etc.  This was later merged with the  National Ag Risk Educational Library.
• The new NRCS e-Field Office Technical Guide can be accessed via the NRCS National Office Web Site. To gain access to eFOTG, the user must select the state of interest on the US map.
• Budgeting Software has links to other agricultural budgeting and modeling software sites.
• Canada