Crop budgets
Crop budgets
Crop enterprise budgets can be used by producers, lenders and others to estimate costs and returns for many crop enterprises. Budgets are updated in odd years and are available in PDF and Excel format. Browse and download cost of crop production documents and spreadsheets for each region of Idaho.
Input price summaries
North Idaho
Download zip file, 1mb - extract to hard drive, 2025
- Alfalfa hay, establishment, 2025 (pdf and spreadsheet)
- Alfalfa hay, production, 2025 (pdf and spreadsheet)
Download zip file, 38mb - extract to hard drive 2013, 2015, 2020, 2021
- Alfalfa hay, establishment, 2013
- Alfalfa hay, establishment and production, 2015
- Annual forage, spring planted, 2021
- Bluegrass, establishment and production, 2013
- Cover crops, direct seed, 2021
- Grass hay, production and establishment, 2015
- Grains and grain rotation crops, conventional till, 2021
- Grains and grain rotation crops, direct seed, 2020
Southcentral Idaho
Download zip file, 9mb - extract to hard drive, 2019
- Sugarbeets, roundup ready, 2022 (video worksheet)
- Alfalfa hay, 2019
- Alfalfa hay establishment with oats, 2019
- Alfalfa hay establishment after winter wheat, 2019
- Barley, feed, 2019
- Barley, malting, 2019
- Beans, dry, 2019
- Corn, field, genetically modified, 2019
- Corn, silage, genetically modified, 2019
- Potatoes, Russet Burbank, on-farm storage, with fumigation, 2017
- Potatoes, Russet Burbank, on-farm storage, 2017
- Sugarbeets, roundup ready, 2019
- Wheat, spring, hard red, 2019
- Wheat, spring, soft white, 2019
- Wheat, winter, soft white, 2019
Southeastern Idaho, dryland
Download zip file, 8mb - extract to hard drive, 2019
- Spreadsheet, 2019
- Barley, feed, 2019
- Barley, malting, 2019
- Wheat, spring, hard white, higher rainfall areas, 2019
- Wheat, spring, hard white, lower rainfall areas, 2019
- Wheat, winter, hard red after summer fallow, 2019
- Wheat, winter, soft white after summer fallow, 2019
Southeastern Idaho, irrigated
Download zip file, 1mb - extract to hard drive, 2025
- Alfalfa hay, establishment, 2025 (pdf and spreadsheet)
- Alfalfa hay, production, 2025 (pdf and spreadsheet)
Download zip file, 15mb - extract to hard drive, 2019, 2022
- Sugarbeets, roundup ready, 2022 (video worksheet)
- Oats, 2022
- Alfalfa hay, 2019
- Alfalfa hay establishment in grain stubble, 2019
- Barley, feed, 2019
- Barley, malting, 2019
- Potatoes, Russet Burbank, on-farm storage, northern (Bonneville and Madison), 2019
- Potatoes, Russet Burbank, on-farm storage, southern (Bannock, Bingham and Power), 2019
- Potatoes, Russet Burbank, with fumigation and on-farm storage, southern (Bannock, Bingham and Power), 2019
- Sugarbeets, roundup ready, 2019
- Wheat, spring, hard red, 2019
- Wheat, spring, soft white, 2019
- Wheat, winter, soft white, 2019
Southwest Idaho
Download zip file, 7mb - extract to hard drive
- Sugarbeets, roundup ready, 2022 (video worksheet)
- Oats, 2022
- Alfalfa hay, 2019
- Alfalfa seed, 2013
- Field corn, 2013
- Corn Silage, roundup ready, 2013
- Potatoes, Russet Burbank, with fumigation, 2019
- Peppermint, establishment and production, center pivot, 2013
- Peppermint, establishment and production, gravity, no fumigation, 2013
- Peppermint, establishment and production, gravity, with fumigation, 2013
- Pinto beans, 2013
- Soft white spring wheat, 2019
- Soft white winter wheat, 2019
Please email Pat Hatzenbuehler at phatzenbuehler@uidaho.edu if you need crop input price summaries or archived budgets.