Costs

Updated 12/01/2008

NRCS Practice Payment Schedules SharePoint Site

    NRCS Practice Payment Schedules National Directives and National Training/Instructions

    FY 2008 Payment Schedules PaymentScheduleLibrary

    FY 2009 Payment Schedules PaymentScheduleLibrary

NRCS Regional Budget and Cost Information 

NRCS Program Cost Lists by County Downloaded from ProTracts

NRCS Guidance for Cost Lists, Application Evaluation and Ranking Tools

2006 NRCS Guidance for Cost Lists, Application Evaluation and Ranking Tools

The Southern Extension Farm Management Committee has developed a searchable database to catalog enterprise budgets and software which you can search by state, enterprise, farm size, tillage system, etc.

The Minnesota National Ag Risk Education Library Budget Section also has a searchable database to catalog enterprise budgets which you can search by state and enterprise.

The new NRCS e-Field Office Technical Guide can be accessed via the NRCS National Office web site.

Another source of simple national and regional cropping costs information is from ERS. This is a subpart of their Farm Business Economics Briefing Room (featuring current analyses and data of major farm, business, and household indicators). If you have questions or comments, e-mail Bob McElroy.

• AAEA Commodity Costs and Returns Estimation Handbook
• Cost and Returns Estimation
• Discount Rates, FY09 Watershed Rate is 4.625%, 2008 A-94 Rate is 4.6%
• Annual Normalized Prices for Water Resource Projects 1958 - 2008.
• OMB Circular No. A-94, Discount Rates For Cost-Effectiveness, Lease Purchase, and Related Analyses
• NRCS Cost
• Price Index and Quick spreadsheet of the most common indexes and discount rates, updated 12/2/2008 
• Principles and Guidelines for Water Resource Projects (PDF 1.18 MB)