Budgets reflect a manager’s best estimate of future revenue, expense, and profit if a certain plan is followed. Enterprise budgets represent the author’s best estimate of what profit (or loss) a particular enterprise might yield following certain practices. Enterprise budgets are developed by many University Extension Specialists across the Midwest and can be useful to new producers looking to get a start and established producers looking to re-evaluate their enterprise. The following is a list of websites that house Enterprise budgets:
Ohio State University Extension Enterprise Budgets
http://aede.osu.edu/Programs/FarmManagement/Budgets/index.htm
Ag Risk Education Library: Budget Library
http://www.agrisk.umn.edu/Budgets/
http://www.agrisk.umn.edu/Budgets/CustomSearch.aspx
University of Kentucky , College of Agriculture
New Crop Opportunities Center
http://www.uky.edu/Ag/NewCrops/budgets.html
Penn State – Farm Management: Enterprise Budgets
http://agguide.agronomy.psu.edu/cm/sec12/sec12toc.cfm
Penn State – Ag Alternatives
http://agalternatives.aers.psu.edu/
University of Illinois – farmdoc – Management: Enterprise Costs
http://www.agrisk.umn.edu/Budgets/Display.aspx?RecID=8&Pg=1
Purdue – Crop Cost and Return Guide
http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/extension/pubs/
http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/extension/pubs/id166_2009_Jan09.pdf
Iowa State – Ag Decision Maker
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/
Iowa State – Livestock Enterprise Budgets for Iowa 2008
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/FM1815.pdf
Ag Marketing Resource Center (AgMRC)
Kansas State – Enterprise Budgets
http://www.agmanager.info/crops/
http://www.agmanager.info/livestock/budgets/default.asp
Kansas State Farm Management Guides
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/agec2/farm_mgt.pdf
University of Missouri – Farm Budgets