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Regional Agricultural Economic Information Sources
Updated
01/12/2009
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Canadian Crop budgets
Links to Enterprise Budgets, Conservation Costs, and Software by
States/County and Links to Agriculture Economics, Extension, and Government Ag. sites
Agricultural Sector Model (ASM) Production Regions
Additional Information Sources:
The USDA Economic Research Service maintains a national
Commodity Costs and
Returns including estimated annual production costs and returns and
published accounts for major field crop and livestock enterprises since 1975.
The
National Ag Risk Educational
Library maintains a listing of State Budgets at
http://www.agrisk.umn.edu/budgets/.
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 from
Economic Research Service (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.
The CARE budget databases for each of 63 Production Regions of the US (the same
regions used in the Agricultural Sector Model (ASM)) include conventional,
minimal till, and no till budgets for each major crop. Details on their
formation can be found in Development of Selected Crop Enterprise Budgets for
the United States by Benson, V. W., E. J. Jordan, R. Davis, S. Neitsch and A.
Meinardus. March, 1997.
For documentation on the outside use of these budgets.
Cost
of Production System Budgets (456 KB).
The DOS CARE program is downloadable from
ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/Economics/care/doscare/
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