Farm budgets and costs

Summer crop gross margin budgets

These gross margin budgets are listed under zones for dryland and irrigated summer crops in NSW.

Dryland north-east summer crop gross margins

Cotton 23.9 kb
Cotton (Roundup Ready Flex� Bollgard II�) 43.3 kb
Dryland north-east NSW summer crop budgets 262.1 kb
No-till cowpeas 23.9 kb
No-till maize 23.5 kb
No-till mungbeans 24.0 kb
No-till sorghum 23.4 kb
No-till soybeans 23.5 kb
No-till sunflowers (mono-unsaturated) 23.1 kb
Perennial tropical grass pasture - chromosols 20.4 kb
Perennial tropical grass pasture - vertosols 19.8 kb

Irrigated northern summer crop gross margins

Irrigated cotton (conventional, Roundup Ready Flex) 26.7 kb
Irrigated cotton (Roundup Ready Flex� Bollgard II�) 45.9 kb
Irrigated maize 22.8 kb
Irrigated mungbeans 24.7 kb
Irrigated navy beans 24.7 kb
Irrigated sorghum 23.3 kb
Irrigated soybeans 23.9 kb
Irrigated summer crops, northern NSW 194.0 kb
Irrigated sunflowers 23.3 kb
Spray irrigated lucerne for hay 25.3 kb
Surface irrigated lucerne for hay 25.1 kb

Dryland north-west summer crop gross margins

Roundup Ready Flex� Bollgard II� cotton 47.2 kb
No-till sorghum 23.3 kb
No-till sunflowers (mono-unsaturated) 23.4 kb

Irrigated Murrumbidgee summer crop gross margins 2009/10

Compiled by Rajinder Pal Singh, Economist, Yanco Agricultural Institute, Yanco; Kieran O’Keefe, District Agronomist, Griffith and James Hill, Regional Cotton Extension Officer, Hay; with contributions from Rachael Whitworth, District Agronomist, Griffith; Mary-Anne Lattimore, District Agronomist, Yanco and Luke Gaynor, Technical Officer, Wagga Wagga.

All Murrumbidgee summer crops 271.3 kb
Cotton - Roundup Ready Flex Bollgard II� 46.0 kb
Flood irrigated lucerne establishment (Murrumbidgee/Murray) 33.3 kb
Flood irrigated lucerne maintenance (Murrumbidgee/Murray) 29.1 kb
Flood irrigated maize 33.1 kb
Rice: long grain, aerial sown 34.8 kb
Rice: medium grain, aerial sown 34.9 kb
Rice: medium grain, sod sown 34.1 kb
Rice: medium grain aerial sown using bore 32.5 kb
Soybeans (human consumption) 34.7 kb
Soybeans for crushing, permanent beds 36.7 kb
Water costs for Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area 27.9 kb

Irrigated central summer crop gross margins 2009/10

Azuki beans 25.2 kb