What an acre has to yield, and what you need per bushel, to cover your costs. Free, no sign-up, and every number shows its math.
Enter at least one cost, an expected yield, and a price. Your breakeven updates as you type.
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Add up what an acre costs you. Then:
The example numbers are an illustration of the arithmetic, not a market price or a typical cost.
Breakeven yield is how many bushels (or cwt, or pounds) an acre has to produce at your price to cover its costs. Breakeven price is what you need per unit at your expected yield. Same costs, two ways of asking whether the acre pays.
Because a cost you haven't looked up yet isn't free. Counting it as $0 makes the acre look more profitable than it is. Blank lines are listed as not entered, so you can see the result is incomplete. Type 0 only when a cost really is zero, like rent on ground you own outright.
Your own invoices and rent agreement are best. If you're planning ahead, most land-grant universities publish crop enterprise budgets each year through their extension service, broken out by the same kinds of lines used here.
No. It only counts the costs, yield, and price you enter. That keeps the number honest about what the crop itself has to earn.
No. The math runs in your browser and nothing is sent to us. To save numbers by field and compare years, make a free Fencerow account.
What does an acre cost in a published budget? See crop breakevens for corn, soybeans, rice, wheat, cotton, and sorghum. Want this for every field, every year? See how Fencerow works.