September 16, 2025

2026 Crop Cost and Return Guide

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September 2025 Estimates

 

The Purdue Crop Cost and Return Guide offers farmers a resource to project financials for the coming crop year. These are the updated September 2025 crop budget estimations for 2026; prepared by Purdue faculty members Michael R. Langemeier, Department of Agricultural Economics; Shaun Castell and Dan Quinn, Department of Agronomy; and Tommy Butz, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University.

**Find the companion spreadsheet tool to examine gross revenue, costs, and earnings for crop enterprises here. A user can evaluate up to three full-season crops, and the wheat double-crop soybean system. Gross revenue, cost, and net returns are evaluated on a per acre and per unit basis.  Breakeven prices to cover variable and total cost are computed for each crop.

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