Table 8. Cost analysis of some agronomic crops grown in single- or double-crop systems in


Variable cost/acre

Fixed cost/acre

Total cost/acre

Yield (bu/A)17

Total cost/bu

Mean price ($/bu)

Net return/bu

Net return/acre


Wheat Soybean1-/

 Double

 82 90

 30 30

 112 120

 62 43

 1.81 2.73

 2.91 5.87

 1.10 3.14

68.20 138.16


Tropical Corn


Sorghum


Double Single Double1/ Doublel/

 120 140 125 190

 30 40 30 110

 150 180 155 300

 94 94 40 90

 1.60 1.92 3.88 3.33

 2.48 2.48 2.23 2.23

 0.88 0.56 -1.65 -1.10

82.72 52.64 -66.00 -99.00


Single

140

 40

 180

 91

1.97

2.23

0.25


Double!/

 125

 30

 155

 29

 5.35

 2.48

-2.87


the Southeast.

 Temperate Corn

Single5/ Singlei/

 240 125

 110 30

 350 155

 200 30

 1.75 5.17

 2.48 2.48

-0.73 -2.69


22.75 -83.23 -199.27 -80.70


L/Nematode free yield trials at Quincy, FL.

2/Double-cropped after wheat for grain, dryland.

1/Double-cropped after corn for grain with irrigation.

!/Double-cropped after wheat for grain, dryland.


1/Irrigated.

6/Single-cropped dryland spring grown during dry year.

!/Single-cropped dryland spring grown during wet year.

I/Yields based upon research in north Florida.


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Single-/

 125

 30

 155

 90

 1.72

 2.48

 0.76

68.40


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