Audience
Farmers and businesses interested in a solution to manage their operations and comply with all certifications
About FARM Tool
Welcome to the FAPRI Beginning Farmer and Rancher online Farm Cost and Return Tool (CART) page. This tool, developed as part of the beginning farmer and rancher project, was created to assist beginning farmers and ranchers. It can be used by those who are either thinking about farming or are actively engaged in a farming operation. The tool includes data from the FAPRI baseline and the USDA. It includes a specified set of commodities (see below), historical production and costs, and five years of projected production and costs estimates. The user can select the commodities on the farm, enter the number of acres farmed for each crop selected and number of head of livestock, and edit yields, prices and costs. Once the farm is constructed and the data entered, a five-year estimate of costs and returns are available to the user. This allows the user to estimate the profitability of different farming operations online.