Nate Bruce, Farm Business Management Specialist, nsbruce@udel.edu
Enterprise budgets for vegetables have been updated with prices and information for 2025. You can use these budgets to estimate your production costs and returns for several different crops: watermelons, pumpkins, fresh market sweet corn, processing lima beans, processing snap beans, processing sweet corn. All enterprise budgets are in Excel. The first tab contains research estimated costs and returns. The second tab allows you to enter your own costs and returns. New for 2025 are late harvest fresh market sweet corn budgets and machinery harvested fresh market sweet corn budgets.
To download the new enterprise budgets go to: https://www.udel.edu/canr/cooperative-extension/sustainable-production/agribusiness/farm-business-management/ or download them directly from this webpage:
SweetCorn-FM_2025
SweetCornProcessing25
SnapBeansProcessing25
SeedlessWatermelon-FM_2025
Pumpkin-FM_2025
LimasProcessing25
If you have any questions on the budgets, please contact me at by email or by phone 302-363-7619.