2026 Crop Budget File Downloads
2026 Crop Enterprise Reports About the 2026 Crop Budgets
Check back soon for the full, compiled 2026 Nebraska Crop Budgets Publication
The 2026 University of Nebraska–Lincoln crop budget projections were created using assumptions thought to be valid for many producers in Nebraska; however, each farming operation is unique and therefore, the budgets should be used as a guide when creating your own. The budget reports are grouped by crop enterprise and provided in pdf file format generated from the Agricultural Budget Calculator (ABC) program.
The current Nebraska crop budgets provide both a cash cost per unit of production and a total cost of production or economic cost per unit for each crop. The cash cost figure does not include the ownership cost of machinery and equipment used in field operations or a real estate opportunity cost, while the total cost figure in the budgets is an economic total cost that includes depreciation and opportunity costs of ownership using the assumption that the operator is a landowner. The crop budgets assume that the operator is the landowner by showing an opportunity cost of ownership. Producers that lease ground should adjust the land cost by noting a rental rate or share lease percentage.
For 2026, the Agricultural Budget Calculator (ABC) program was utilized to create the Nebraska crop budgets rather than using an Excel template. The crop enterprise budgets can be viewed and downloaded in the ABC program and then modified to fit individual farm operation enterprises.
The 2026 crop budgets were developed and edited by Glennis McClure, Extension Educator in Agricultural Economics and a team of Extension Specialists and Educators including:
| Cody Creech | Associate Professor - Dryland Cropping Systems |
| John Hay | Extension Educator - Biological Systems Engineering |
| Tamra Jackson-Ziems | Professor - Extension Plant Pathologist |
| Pin-Chu Lai | Assistant Professor - Extension Entomologist |
| Nevin Lawrence | Associate Professor – Agronomy & Horticulture |
| Justin McMechan | Associate Professor - Extension Entomologist |
| Dylan Mangel | Assistant Professor - Extension Plant Pathologist |
| Gary Stone | Extension Educator – Water & Cropping Systems |
| Nicolas Cafaro La Menza | Assistant Professor – Agronomy & Horticulture |
| Milos Zaric | Assistant Professor – Agronomy & Horticulture |
| Stephen Wegulo | Professor - Extension Plant Pathologist |
| Todd Whitney | Extension Educator – Water & Cropping Systems |
To learn more about the budgets and to customize the UNL crop budgets using the Agricultural Budget Calculator (ABC) program, contact Glennis McClure, 402-472-0661. Training sessions on the ABC enterprise budgeting program are scheduled on an ongoing basis. Visit cap.unl.edu/abc/training.
Nebraska crop budgets from previous years are available in the crop budgets archive.
Ag Budget Calculator Program
The Agricultural Budget Calculator (ABC) Program makes it possible to download one or more of the Nebraska crop budgets into your own ABC enterprise budgeting account. Using ABC the budgets can be modified to create your custom crop budgets for 2025. Learn more at cap.unl.edu/abc or go directly to the ABC program at agbudget.unl.edu.
The Agricultural Budget Calculator (ABC) is an enterprise budgeting tool developed by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Department of Agricultural Economics and the Center for Ag Profitability. ABC is a free online program where farm managers and producers can download UNL’s budgets, then modify them with their own prices of material inputs, field operations, costs of machinery, repairs, labor, and other expenses, plus add their projected revenue to calculate returns above cash and all costs. Cost of production calculations and net revenue projections can be estimated by crop or by field or farm.
Ag Budget Calculator Trainings
Online training sessions for new and existing users of the ABC program are scheduled now. For more information and to register, go to: cap.unl.edu/abc/training.