Build your own Budgets

• Spreadsheet Budgets* (Spreadsheet Budget Help Video – best viewed in full screen)
• Using The Spreadsheet Budgets (help file)
• Machinery Cost Estimator (calculate your machinery cost)

*Please note:  This is an Excel spreadsheet file with macros (.xlsm). Due to changes made by Microsoft, in order to use the file once downloaded, you will have to find the file in your download folder, right click on the file name, select Properties, and check Unblock at the bottom of the Properties window. You will then have to enable macros in Excel for all features to work. If you have trouble downloading the file, try downloading this zip file and extracting the Excel file from it.

Example Budgets
Field Crops

• Corn, Conventional Tillage, Furrow Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Corn, Reduced Tillage, Furrow Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Cotton, Conventional Tillage, Furrow Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Cotton, Reduced Tillage, GMO, Furrow Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Cotton, Conventional Tillage, Dryland, Rio Grande Valley
• Grain Sorghum, Conventional Tillage, Furrow Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Grain Sorghum, Reduced Tillage, Furrow Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Grain Sorghum, Conventional Tillage, Dryland, Rio Grande Valley
• Sugar Cane, Planted, Furrow Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Sugar Cane, Ratoon, Furrow Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Hay Production, Furrow Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Hay Establishment, Furrow Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley

Horticultural Crops

• Cabbage, Fresh Market, Furrow Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Cantaloupe, Plastic Mulch, Drip Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Honeydew, Plastic Mulch, Drip Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Onion, Hybrid Yellow Varieties, Furrow Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Watermelon, Seedless, Plastic Mulch, Drip Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Watermelon, Open Pollinated Varieties, Dryland, Rio Grande Valley

Citrus Crops

• Grapefruit, Year 1, Orchard Establishment, Flood Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Grapefruit, Year 2, Orchard Establishment, Flood Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Grapefruit, Year 3, Orchard Establishment, Flood Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Grapefruit, Year 4, Orchard Establishment, Flood Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Grapefruit, Year 5, Orchard Establishment, Flood Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Grapefruit, Year 6, Orchard Establishment, Flood Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Grapefruit, Year 7, Orchard Establishment, Flood Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Grapefruit, Year 8, Orchard Establishment, Flood Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Oranges, Early Orange, Mature Orchard, Flood Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley
• Oranges, Valencias, Mature Orchard, Flood Irrigated, Rio Grande Valley