Projections for Planning Purposes Only -- Not to be Used without Updating
2016 Estimated Costs and Returns per Acre
Oats for Grain - 200 Acres
Central Texas Extension District - 8
Crop Acres
200
REVENUE
Oats
Total Revenue
Quantity
100.00
VARIABLE COSTS
Production Costs
Herbicide
Weed Burndown
Seed
Oat Seed
Fertilizer
N
46-0-0
Custom
Custom Combine
Custom Hauling Oats
Miscellaneous
Insurance - Oats 65%
Insurance - Oats SCO
Insecticide
Insecticide Greenbug
Fungicides
Tebuconazole
Machinery Labor
Tractors/Self-Propelled
Diesel Fuel
Tractors/Self-Propelled
Repairs & Maintenance
Tractors/Self-Propelled
Implements
Interest on Credit Line
Total Variable Costs
Planned Returns Above Variable Costs:
Breakeven Price to Cover Variable Costs
Quantity
FIXED COSTS
Machinery Depreciation
Tractors/Self-Propelled
Implements
Equipment Investment
Tractors/Self-Propelled
Implements
Dryland Crop Rent
Total Fixed Costs
Total Specified Costs
Quantity
Units
Bushel
Units
$/Unit
$2.40
Cash
Total
$240.00
$240.00
$/Unit
Total
Enterprise
Total
$48,000.00
$48,000.00
Enterprise
Total
10
Ounce
$0.24
$2.40
$480.00
72
Pound
$0.35
$25.20
$5,040.00
37
137
Pound
Pound
$0.60
$0.60
$22.20
$82.20
$4,440.00
$16,440.00
1
100
Acre
Bushel
$25.00
$0.16
$25.00
$16.00
$5,000.00
$3,200.00
1
1
Acre
Acre
$7.00
$2.00
$7.00
$2.00
$1,400.00
$400.00
1
Acre
$4.50
$4.50
$900.00
4
Ounce
$0.38
$1.50
$300.00
1.05
Hour
$10.00
$10.50
$2,100.00
6.67
Gallon
$2.65
$17.68
$3,535.10
Acre
Acre
$10.60
$13.18
4.75%
1
1
Units
1
1
$85.32
$68.35
1
$2.44
$10.60
$13.18
$4.02
$243.97
($3.97)
Bushel
$/Unit
Total
$2,119.70
$2,636.34
$803.07
$48,794.21
($794.21)
Enterprise
Total
Acre
Acre
$10.95
$15.44
$10.95
$15.44
$2,190.36
$3,088.34
Dollars
Dollars
Acre
6.00%
6.00%
$30.00
$5.12
$4.10
$30.00
$65.61
$309.58
$1,023.82
$820.19
$6,000.00
$13,122.71
$61,916.92
($69.58)
($13,916.92)
Returns Above Specified Costs
Breakeven Price to Cover Total Costs
$3.10
Bushel
Example Breakeven Prices
Example
Yield
Percent
75%
90%
100%
110%
125%
Example
Yield
Bushel
75.00
90.00
100.00
110.00
125.00
Price Needed to Cover
Your Variable Costs
$3.25
$2.71
$2.44
$2.22
$1.95
Price Needed to Cover
Your Total Costs
$4.13
$3.44
$3.10
$2.81
$2.48
Developed by Jason Johnson, Associate Professor and Extension Economist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension.
Information presented is prepared solely as a general guide and not intended to recognize or predict the costs and
returns from any one operation. Brand names are mentioned only as examples and imply no endorsement.