Cost and return estimates are reported for the United States and major production regions for corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, grain sorghum, rice, peanuts, oats, barley, milk, hogs, and cow-calf. The history of commodity cost and return estimates for the U.S. and regions is divided into three categories: Current, Recent, and Historical estimates. Cost-of Production Forecasts  are also available for major U.S. field crops.

On June 11, 2012, all 2011 annual milk cost and return estimates were revised due to discovery of an error in the purchased feed cost estimates.  The error resulted from inconsistencies in the feed price data used to index the 2010 purchased feed cost to reflect 2011 prices.  Consistent dairy feed prices were found and used to correct the error.  The incorrect data were originally posted on May 1, 2012. All files containing annual estimates for milk under the Current and Recent categories were corrected.

 Also see the ERS Milk Cost of Production Estimates data product.

Data Set
Data  Current Costs and Returns: All commodities Recent Costs and Returns: Corn Recent Costs and Returns: Soybeans Recent Costs and Returns: Wheat Recent Costs and Returns: Cotton Recent Costs and Returns: Rice Recent Costs and Returns: Grain sorghum Recent Costs and Returns: Barley Recent Costs and Returns: Oats Recent Costs and Returns: Sugar Beets Recent Costs and Returns: Peanuts Recent Costs and Returns: Milk Recent Costs and Returns: Hogs, all Recent Costs and Returns: Hogs, farrow-finish Recent Costs and Returns: Hogs, farrow-feeder Recent Costs and Returns: Hogs, feeder-finish Recent Costs and Returns: Hogs, other Recent Costs and Returns: Cow-calf Historical Costs and Returns: Corn Historical Costs and Returns: Soybeans Historical Costs and Returns: Wheat Historical Costs and Returns: Cotton Historical Costs and Returns: Rice Historical Costs and Returns: Grain sorghum Historical Costs and Returns: Barley Historical Costs and Returns: Oats Historical Costs and Returns: Sugar Beets Historical Costs and Returns: Peanuts Historical Costs and Returns: Tobacco Historical Costs and Returns: Milk Historical Costs and Returns: Hogs, all Historical Costs and Returns: Hogs, farrow-finish Historical Costs and Returns: Hogs, farrow-feeder Historical Costs and Returns: Hogs, feeder-finish Historical Costs and Returns: Cow-Calf Cost-of-Production Forecasts			Back to top

Corn: 2010-11		5/1/2012	10/1/2012
Soybeans: 2010-11		5/1/2012	10/1/2012
Wheat: 2010-11		5/1/2012	10/1/2012
Cotton: 2010-11		5/1/2012	10/1/2012
Rice: 2010-11		5/1/2012	10/1/2012
Grain sorghum: 2010-11		5/1/2012	10/1/2012
Barley: 2010-11		5/1/2012	10/1/2012
Oats: 2010-11		5/1/2012	10/1/2012
Peanuts: 2010-11		5/1/2012	10/1/2012
Milk: 2010-11		6/11/2012	10/1/2012
Hogs (all): 2010-11		5/1/2012	10/1/2012
Hogs (farrow-to-finish): 2010-11		5/1/2012	10/1/2012
Hogs, (farrow-to-feeder): 2010-11		5/1/2012	10/1/2012
Hogs (feeder-to-finish): 2010-11		5/1/2012	10/1/2012
Hogs (other): 2010-11		5/1/2012	10/1/2012
Cow-calf: 2010-11		5/1/2012	10/1/2012

Last updated: Thursday, July 05, 2012

For more information contact: William McBride