2012 Nebraska Crop Budgets
 

This publication, Nebraska Crop Budgets 2012 (EC872), includes all the budgets as well as information on crop budgeting procedures, machinery operation and ownership costs, material and service prices and a crop budget production cost summary.

 Individual crop budgets available for:

Alfalfa

• Rainfed fall establishment
• Rainfed establish spring seed w/herbicides
• Pivot irrigated establish spring seed w/herbicides
• Gravity irrigated established with oats
• Rainfed, large round bales
• Pivot irrigated large and small square bales
• Gravity irrigated large square bales

Corn

• Rainfed convetional, continuous, 90 bu/ac yield goal 
• Rainfed no-till, RR & Bt, RW & ECB, continuous, 120 bu/ac yield goal
• Rainfed, no-till SmartStax, continuous, 125 bu/ac yield goal
• Rainfed no-till, Bt ECB after soybean, 125 bu/ac yield goal 
• Rainfed ecofallow, follows wheat, two crops in three years, RR & Bt ECB, 125 bu/ac yield goal
• Gravity irrigated ridge-till, Bt, RW & ECB, continuous, 230 bu/ac yield goal
• Gravity irrigated, ridge-till, SmartStax, continuous, 240 bu/ac yield goal
• Pivot irrigated no-till, Bt ECB & RW, continuous, 235 bu/ac yield goal
• Pivot irrigated, no-till, SmartStax, continuous, 245 bu/ac yield goal
• Pivot irrigated Bt ECB & RW, continuous, 225 bu/ac yield goal
• Pivot irrigated, SmartStax, continuous, 235 bu/ac yield goal
• Pivot irrigated no-till, Bt ECB, after beans, 240 bu/ac yield goal 

Corn Silage

• Pivot irrigated no-till following corn
   

Dry Beans

• Pivot irrigated conventional with wheat cover crop
• Gravity irrigated
• Pivot irrigated

Grain Sorghum

• Rainfed conventional 105 bu/ac yield goal
• Rainfed no-till 125 bu/ac yield goal
• Rainfed ecofallow, after wheat, two crops in three years, 115 bu/ac yield goal
• Pivot irrigated no-till, limited irrigation 165 bu/ac yield goal

Grass

• Pivot irrigated fall establishment
   

Grass Hay

• Rainfed large round bales

Millet

• Rainfed stubble mulch fallow, fb wheat, two crops in three years, 22 cwt yield goal

Oats

• Rainfed no-till, 90 bu/ac yield goal

Pasture

•   Pivot irrigated, grazing

Sorghum-Sudan

• Rainfed, annually planted, large round bales

Soybeans

• Rainfed tilled seedbed, Roundup Ready®
• Rainfed no-till, Roundup Ready® after corn
• Rainfed no-till, Roundup Ready® continuous
• Pivot irrigated tilled seedbed, Roundup Ready® after corn
• Gravity irrigated ridge-till, RR after RR corn
• Pivot irrigated no-till narrow row, Roundup Ready® after corn
• Pivot irrigated no-till narrow row, continuous
• Pivot irrigated no-till drilled, Roundup Ready® after corn

Sugar Beets

• Gravity irrigated Roundup Ready®, one pass tillage
• Pivot irrigated Roundup Ready®, one pass tillage
   

Sunflowers

• Rainfed no-yill, following corn or grain sorghum
• Rainfed ecofallow, after wheat, two crops in three years

Wheat

• Rainfed no-till after row crop, 45 bu/ac yield goal
• Rainfed stubble mulch fallow, one crop in two years, 53 bu/ac yield goal
• Rainfed clean till fallow, one crop in two years, 49 bu/ac yield goal
• Rainfed no-till wheat before corn, two crops in three years, 65 bu/ac yield goal
• Pivot irrigated No-till after beans, 105 bu/ac yield goal

Input Costs

• Power Unit Cost Data Used for 2012 Budgets
• Machinery Cost Data Used for 2012 Budgets
• Material Prices Used for 2012 Budgets
• Conversion of diesel to electricity, propane, gasoline, and natural gas
• Adjusting the amount of diesel fuel required for center pivots for lifts and pressures other than the 125 feet of lift and 35 psi used in the budgets