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  • From: "Sharon and Steve" <shopkins AT tdstelme.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Crop Planning / Seed Order
  • Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:16:29 -0500


Here is a rough guide:

http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/426-331/426-331guide.html

Here is the most valuable book that I use; dont discount it too much if you are not in New England, most of it can be adjusted to other areas.

http://www.nevegetable.org/

Here is a page from it:

CROP BUDGETS

Budgets are simply a formal means of organizing relevant

economic information to help make business decisions.

Various types of budgets have been developed to address

different management questions. Partial budgets are used to

assess the impact on net income of a minor change in

operations. Enterprise budgets show the receipts, expenses

and resource requirements associated with producing a

specific product. Whole farm budgets project receipts,

expenses and profit from all enterprises, the entire farm.

Cash flow budgets show cash inflows and cash outflows,

anticipating cash deficits or surpluses through the year.

Enterprise budgets are particularly useful when evaluating

the feasibility of an existing or potential new product.

Receipts and expenses shown on enterprise budgets are

commonly expressed on a per acre basis for vegetable

crops. Putting information on a per acre basis allows for

comparison across crops, across farms and across years. In

addition, receipts and expenses are most often for a year,

coinciding with the business reporting cycle.

Several websites offer a good starting point when developing

crop enterprise budgets, including:

New England Crop Budgets

www.umassvegetable.org (See Farm Planning under Food & Farming Systems)

Penn State Crop Budgets

agalternatives.aers.psu.edu/crops/Crops.html

Ohio Enterprise Budgets

aede.osu.edu/Programs/FarmManagement/Budgets/

Michigan Budget Estimates

www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/aecreports/budgets01.htm

Virginia Horticulture Budgets

www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/vegetables/438-898/438-898.html

Kentucky Vegetable Budgets

www.uky.edu/Ag/HortBiz/pubs.html (See Production budgets under Publications)

In addition to these specific sites, the National Agricultural

Risk Education Library has a budget library which may

easily be searched by commodity and geographic area. The

home address is www.agrisk.umn.edu/.

As a final note, it is important to identify the author's

assumptions about the means of production and marketing

when examining an enterprise budget. These assumptions

have a significant influence on the level of receipts and costs

per acre. Enterprise budgets developed elsewhere will likely

have to be modified to fit any New England situation.






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