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Vegetable and Melon Budget updates

2008 Vegetable and Melon budgets

Asparagus

2005 Sample Asparagus Production Budget for Kentucky

Berries

2008 Kentucky Blackberry Cost and Return Estimates

2008 Blueberry Cost and Return Estimates Summary

2008 Kentucky Highbush Blueberry Production Budgets - Wholesale/Retail Marketing

2008 Kentucky Highbush Blueberry Production Budgets - Pick Your Own Marketing

Kentucky Strawberry Profitability Estimated Costs and Returns

Field crops

Corn and Soybean Budgets (Central KY 2013)

Corn and Soybean Budgets (Western KY 2013)

Wheat and Wheat Double-Crop Soybean Budgets (2012-2013)

Flower crops

Greenhouse Cost of Production Budgets
For bedding plants, fuschia, geraniums, New Guinea Impatiens, potted mums and garden mums, from Rutgers Cooperative Extension

Virtual Grower
An energy cost calculator for greenhouse growers from the USDA

Gourds

Ornamental Gourd Production in Kentucky

Grapes

2010 Grape Cost and Return Estimates: Summaries and Assumptions

2008 KY Grape Production Budgets - Vinifera Wine Grape Varieties

2008 KY Grape Production Budgets - French-American Hybrid and American Wine Grape Varieties

2008 KY Grape Production Budgets - Table Grape Varieties

Winery and Vineyard Feasibility Workbooks
Excel spreadsheets developed by Iowa State University Extension that can be modified for various winegrape establishment systems. Also includes a separate 10-year cash flow worksheet designed to calculate all costs incurred in a winery establishment.

Mushrooms

Potential Profits from a Small-Scale Shiitake Enterprise

Nursery Crops

Pot-in-pot Nursery System Cash Flow Worksheet (revised January 2009)

Pot-in-Pot Nursery System Cash Flow Worksheet Annual Sales Version (revised March 2010)

Vegetables/melons

2008 Vegetable and Melon budgets

Useful Budget Web sites

Nearby states are great sources of budget information when evaluating new crops in Kentucky. Useful Web pages are:

Beginning Farmer Center and Leopold Center Enterprise Budgets (popcorn, beekeeping, sheep, sorghum, sweet corn) from Iowa State University.

Fruit budgets (apples, blackberries, blueberries, grapes, raspberries, strawberries) from N.C. State University.

Enterprise Budgets and Production Costs for Organic Production
2004 publication listing sources of enterprise budgets for organic field and horticulture crops

National Budget Databases
Searchable budget databases with links to many different states' budgets by crop.

Ohio Enterprise Budgets
Includes Cabbage, Cucumber, Popcorn, Pumpkins, Strawberry, Sugarbeet, Tomato, Apples, Peach, Christmas Trees, Hydroponic Greenhouse, and others.

Penn State Ag Alternatives
Contains information on alternative ag enterprises. Many include interactive budgets that may be adjusted for situations in Kentucky.