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Acres Farmed
Average Yield

Seed

Price per 140,000 bag of seed ($)
Plant Population

Fertilizer

Phosphate Unit Cost (per ton) ($)
Application rate/acre (pounds)

Potash Unit Cost (per ton) ($)
Application rate/acre (pounds)

Lime/Year/Acre ($)

Supplements per Year (per ton) ($)
Application rate/acre (pounds)

Micronutrients per Year (per ton) ($)
Application rate/acre (pounds)

Herbicide

Pre_emerge cost/acre ($)
Pre_emerge application costs/acre ($)
Post_emerge cost/acre ($)
Post_emerge application costs/acre ($)

Insecticide

Insecticide cost/acre ($)
Application cost/acre ($)

Fungicide

Fungicide cost/acre ($)
Application cost/acre ($)

Interest

Loan value ($)
Interest Rate (%)
Months for repayment

Harvest Costs

Fixed Combine Costs/Acre ($)
Variable Combine Costs/Acre ($)

Transportation Costs

Fixed Transportation Costs/Acre ($)
Variable Transportation Costs/Acre ($)

Risk Management

Crop Insurance/Acre ($)

Other

Miscellaneous Cost/Acre ($)

Labor

Hours/acre
Wage ($)

Land Cost/Acre (rent or equivalent) ($)

Machinery Cost

Fixed Machinery Cost ($)
Variable Machinery Cost ($)
Fuel ($)

Storage Cost

Fixed Storage Cost ($)
Interest/Month (per bu.)
Months
% Shrinkage
Conditioning

Grain Drying

LP Price/gallon ($)
Total gallons/bu.

Marketing Costs/bu ($)

	Fixed	Variable
Preharvest Machinery

Seed, Chemical, etc.	Units	Cost/Acre
Seed per 1 bag seed
Fertilizer
Herbicide
Insecticide
Fungicide
Crop Insurance
Miscellaneous
Interest on preharvest variable costs
Total

Harvest Machinery	Fixed	Variable
Combine
Transportation
Storage
Dry
Total

Labor

Land
Cash rent equivalent

Total fixed, variable
Per acre
Per bushel

Total cost per acre
Total cost per bushel