Archived Crop Budgets

Historical Crop Cost & Return Guides can be accessed in our archive, which date back to 2002.

March 8, 2019

2019 Crop Cost and Return Guide

March 2019 Estimates
 

The Purdue Crop Cost and Return Guide offers farmers a resource to project financials for the coming cropping year. These are the March 2019 estimations prepared by Purdue faculty members Craig Dobbins and Michael Langemeier, Department of Agricultural Economics; Bob Nielsen, Tony Vyn and Shaun Casteel, Department of Agronomy; and Bill Johnson, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology.

 

2019 Crop Budget Guide, page 1

2019 Crop Budget Guide, page 1

2019 Crop Budget Guide, page 2

2019 Crop Budget Guide, page 2

2019 Crop Budget Guide, page 3

2019 Crop Budget Guide, page 3

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