Enterprise Crop Budgets Available for the 2021 Growing Season

Nov 12, 2020

Arkansas farmers planning for next year’s crops can now access most of the 2021 enterprise budgets developed by the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.

Budgets are available for corn, peanuts, rice, sorghum, soybeans and wheat. The cotton budget has been delayed pending available seed pricing. Final updates are expected by Dec. 1.

Breana Watkins, agricultural economics program associate for the Division of Agriculture, said the budgets are available in PDF or Excel spreadsheet formats, allowing users to personalize inputs and prices.

“These interactive budgets can be used evaluate alternative costs and returns for optimal profit potential,” she said. “Input decisions should be evaluated with an understanding that yield and revenue maximizing inputs are not necessarily the inputs for maximizing profit. County agents can provide information for extension input recommendations.

Inputs in the budgets are recommendations as determined by field trials from the Cooperative Extension Service Crop Research Verification Program for each commodity.The 2021 crop enterprise budgets are available at http://bit.ly/2021CropBudgetsAR.

Source : uaex.edu

Video: Evolution of Beef Cattle Farming

The Clear Conversations podcast took to the road for a special episode recorded in Nashville during CattleCon, bringing listeners straight into the heart of the cattle industry. Host Tracy Sellers welcomed rancher Steve Wooten of Beatty Canyon Ranch in Colorado for a wide-ranging discussion that blended family history and sustainability, particularly as it relates to the future of beef production.

Sustainability emerged as a central theme of the conversation, a word that Wooten acknowledges can mean very different things depending on who you ask. For him, sustainability starts with the soil. Healthy soil produces healthy grass, which supports efficient cattle capable of producing year after year with minimal external inputs. It’s an approach that equally considers vegetation, animal efficiency, and long-term profitability.

That philosophy aligned naturally with Wooten’s involvement in the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, where he served as a representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association. The roundtable brings together the entire beef supply chain—from producers to retailers—along with universities, NGOs, and allied industries. Its goal is not regulation, Wooten emphasized, but collaboration, shared learning, and continuous improvement.