TEXAS WINTER GARDEN
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FOREWORD
The enterprise budgets for Texas Winter Gar
den Region are based on estimates of yields, pro
duction input quantities, and production practices
which represent the best judgment of local produc
ers, county Extension agents-agriculture, financial
institution representatives, farm machinery dealers
and others knowledgeable of the area. Variation
in yields, production inputs and production prac
tices should be expected for particular farms.
Budgets for all major crops produced in the
area are included for two levels of management,
when applicable. Crop yields are directly related
to levels of management. These differences are due
largely to timing of operational practices which
may not be evident in the budgets.
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The machinery inventory is applicable to both
typical and high level management. In some bud
gets custom rates, primarily harvesting, were used
lieu of the assumption that harvesting equipment
was owned.
Budgets for establishing permanent type pasture
grasses were prepared and used for prorating estab
lishment costs in the respective pasture and hay
budgets. Forage crops include expenses only be
cause it is expected that the income will be derived
from livestock enterprises.
Land charges were based on one of the follow
ing three methods: 1) customary landlord's crop
share less his proportionate share of certain produc
tion and harvesting inputs; 2) a cash lease; or 3) a
fair market value times an interest rate.
TEXAS WINTER GARDEN REGION
Assumed Prices Paid and Received by Farmers \J
Item
Unit
Price
Prices paid (1976)
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Seed
Buffel grass
Cabbage
Cantaloupes
Carrots
Corn
Cotton
Cucumbers
Forage Sorghum
Grain Sorghum
Lettuce
Oats
Onions
Spinach
Wheat
Custom rates
Combine grain sorghum
Haul grain sorghum
Combine corn
plus
Haul corn
Pick and haul cotton
Combi ne smal1 grai n
Haul sma11 grain
Mow, rake, bale, haul hay
Aerial applications
1nsecticide
Defoliant
Fungicide
Ginning
Brush remova1
Harvest, Pack, and Market Vegetables
Cabbage
Cantaloups
Carrots
Cucumbers
lb.
lb.
lb.
lb.
lb.
lb.
lb.
lb.
lb.
lb.
lb.
lb.
lb.
lb.
2.25
50.00
5.00
10.00
.75
.25
5.00
.29
.35
15.00
.12
8.00
I .50
.25
cwt.
cwt.
acre
bale
.30
.20
7.00
.10
.15
2.75
9.00
.12
.75
acre
acre
acre
bale
acre
1.75
2.00
2.25
30.00
40.00
bu.
bu.
cwt.
acre
bu.
bag
crate
bag
carton
1.25
5.50
3.00
2.75
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Lettuce
Onions
Fresh Spinach
Processed Spinach
Unit
carton
bag
carton
ton
Price
1.80
2.25
2.00
15.00
FertiIizer
Nitrogen
Phosphorus
Potash
lb.
lb.
lb.
Herbicide
Ve g e t a b l e s ( e x c e p t o n i o n s )
Onions
Corn
Cotton
Grain Sorghum
acre
acre
acre
acre
acre
15.00
27.00
9.00
9.00
7.50
Insecticides
Cabbage
Cantaloupes & cucumbers
Carrots and Lettuce
Corn & Onions
Cotton
Spinach
appl
appl
appl
appl
appl
appl
5.00
2.50
I .50
I .75
3.00
2.50
Fungicides
Cabbage
Cantaloupes
Carrots
Cucumbers
Lettuce
Onions
Spinach
appl
appl
appl
appl
appl
appl
appl
7.00
2.50
3.00
2.50
2.50
2.00
2.00
Cotton Defoliant
acre
7.50
Fuel
Diesel
Gasoline
Natural gas
gal .
ga I .
1,000 cu.ft
.45
.50
1.85
Labor
Tractor and irrigation
Hand
hour
hour
2.50
2.00
Operating Capital
$
Land Rent (cash)
Irrigated
Dryland
Buffelgrass
acre
acre
acre
.23
.21
.08
10
40.00
20.00
10.00
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Unit
Price
50# bag
80# crate
50# bag
bu.
ton
lb.
ton
50# carton
ton
cwt.
40# carton
50# bag
20# carton
ton
bu.
$ 2.25
7.00
5.00
3.25
12.00
.48
100.00
4.25
40.00
5.00
3.00
3.00
3.50
60.00
5.00
Prices received (1976)
Cabbage
Cantaloups
Carrots
Corn, grain
Corn, si I age
Cotton
Cottonseed
Cucumbers
Forage Sorghum Hay
Grain Sorghum
Lettuce
Onions
Spinach, fresh
Spinach, processed
Wheat
1/ These price assumptions are not to be interpreted as predictions or
prospective prices.
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TEXAS WINTER GARDEN REGION
Estimated Machinery and Equipment Cost Per Hour of Use
Machinery
Item and Size
Purchase
Price
Tractor - 90 HP
$10,600
Tractor - 60 HP
7,060
Pickup - 1/2 ton
5,100
Shredder 4R - 13 feet
1,890
Moldboard Plow - 5.3 feet
1,780
Offset disc - 10 feet
2,200
Middle buster 6R - 20 feet
1,100
Rolling cultivator 4R - 13.3 f e e t 2 , 7 0 0
Cultivator 4R - 13.3 feet
1,100
Planter 4R - 13.3 feet
890
1,100
Vegetable planter - 13.3 feet
Grain drill - 12 feet
1,200
Bed shaper 6R - 20 feet
640
Land plane - 12 feet
2,700
830
Sprayer - 13.3 feet
275
V-type ditcher - 5 feet
390
Scraper blade - 6 feet
Estimated
Years"of Use
5
7
3
10
8
8
10
10
10
15
15
15
10
20
8
15
15
Estimated
Hours of Use
7500
7000
3000
2000
2000
2000
2000
2500
2000
1500
1500
750
1000
2500
1200
2505
2505
Fixed Costs
Per Hour
$1.34
1.17
1.38
1.42
1.18
1.46
.82
1.61
.82
1.10
1.35
2.95
.95
2.33
.92
.20
.29
Variable Costs
Per Hour
$3.48
2.38
3.93
.48
.70
.50
.32
.86
.32
.35
.43
.72
.28
.85
.32
.77
1.09
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BUFFEL GRASS ESTAB
DPYLAMD, TEXAS WINTER GARDEN REGION
ESTIMATED COSTS AND RETURNS PER ACRE
TYPICAL MANAGEMENT
UNIT
PRICF
OR
VA L U E
OR
COST/UNIT QUANTITY COST
i. GROSS RECEIPTS FROM PRODUCT!CN
TOTAL
O.P
2 . VA R I A B L E C O S T S
PREHARVEST
BRUSH CLEARING
SEED
MACHINERY
LABCRtTRACTOR £ MACHINERY)
INTEREST CN OP. CAP.
SUBTOTAL, PRE-HARVEST
ACRE
LBS.
ACRE
HOUR
DOL.
40.00
2.25
1.5 7
2.50
0.10
0.5 0
0.30
1.00
0.50
2.96
20.00
0.67
1.57
1.25
%
__Q^Q
23.79
HARVEST COSTS
SUBTOTAL, HARVEST
$
$
0.0
TOTAL VARIABLE CUST
$
23.70
3. INCOME ABOVE VARIABLE COSTS
4. FIXED COSTS
MACHINERY
TRACTORS
LAND (NET RENT)
TOTAL FIXED COSTS
-23.79
ACRE
ACRE
ACRE
0.56
0.0
10.00
1.00
1.00
1.0 0
$
0.56
0.0
10x00
10.56
5. TOTAL COSTS
$
34.36
6. NET RETURNS
% - 3 4 . V,
PROJECTED, P7(,
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3UFFEL GRASS ESTAB., DRYLAND, TEXAS WINTER GARDEN REGION
ESTIMATED COSTS AND RETURNS PER ACRE
TYPICAL MANAGEMENT
OPERATION
PICKUP
PICKUP
PICKUP
PICKUP
FUEL,OIL, FIXED
I T E M T I M E S L A ' I C R M A C H I N E L U R . , R E P. C O S T S
M O . D AT E O V E R H O U R S H O U R S P E R A C R E P E R A C R E
10
MAR
0.10
0.125
0.100
0.39
0.14
10
M AY
0.1'J
0.125
0.100
0.39
0.14
10
J U LY
0.10
0.125
0.100
0.39
0.14
10 SFPT 0.10 _QxlZH .Q^IQO _(2s.A2. -£±.14
TOTALS
0.500
0.400
1.57
0.^6
PROJECTFD, 1976
■^UDGFT IDENTIFICATION NUMBER — A N N U A L C A P I TA L M O N T H 1 2
853012.)021200 0
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RUFFEL GRASS PASTURE, DRYLAND, TEXAS WINTER GARDEN REGION
ESTIMATED COSTS AND RETURNS PER ACRF
TYPICAL 1ANAGFMFNT
PRICE
OR
VA L U E
OP
UNIT COST/UNIT QUANTITY COST
1. GROSS RECFIPTS FROM PRODUCTION
TOTAL
2 . VA R I A B L E C O S T S
PREHARVEST
MACHINERY
LABOR!TRACTOR £ MACHINERY)
I N T E R E S T G N O P. C A P.
SUBTOTAL, PRF-HARVEST
O.P
ACRE
HOUR
DOL.
1.57
2.50
0.10
1.00
0.50
0.52
$
1.57
1.25
—Q±Q5
?.88
HARVEST COSTS
SUBTOTAL, HARVEST
%
%
0.0
TOTAL VARIABLE COST
$
2.8S
S
-2.38
3. INCOME ABOVE VARIABLE COSTS
4. FIXED COSTS
MACHINERY
TRACTORS
PRORATED ESTAB. COST
LAND (NET RFNT)
TOTAL FIXED COSTS
ACRE
ACRE
ACRE
ACRE
0.56
0.0
3 4.06
10.00
1.00
1.00
0.10
1.00
0.56
0.0
3.41
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_ifla£Q
13.97
5. TOTAL COSTS
16.85
6. NET RETURNS
% -16.85
ESTAB. COST PRORATED CVER 10 YEARS. INCOME FROM CROP RFFL-CTED IN
LIVESTOCK
BUDGETS
PROJECTED,
1976
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BUFFEL GRASS PASTURE, DRYLAND, TEXAS WINTER GARDFN REGION
ESTIMATED COSTS AND RETURNS PER ACRE
TYPICAL MANAGEMENT
UPERAT ION
PICKUP
PICKUP
PICKUP
PICKUP
I TEM
NO.
10
10
10
10
TOTALS
DATE
FUEL, OIL, FIXED
T I M E S L A B O R M A C H I N E L U B . , R E P. C O S T S
OVER HOURS HOURS PER ACRE PER ACRE
MAR
MAY
J U LY
SEPT
0.10
0.10
0 .10
0.10
0.100
0.100
0.100
- O a U S _QilQQ
0.125
0.125
0.125
0.500
0.400
0.39
0.39
0.39
0. 14
0.14
0. 14
_1U12
_G*.±£
1.57
0.56
ESTAB. COST PRORATED OVER 10 YEARS. INCOME FRCM CROP REFLECTED IN
LIVESTOCK
BUDGETS
PROJECTFD,
1076
B U D G E T I D E N T I F I C AT I O N N U M B E R 3 5 5 0 1 2 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 0
A N N U A L C A P I TA L M O N T H 1 0